All Episodes

220: Ayurveda, Habits & Routines for Fall: Notice the Shift, Embrace the Shift, Find Your Fall Rhythm

219: August Rest Series: Better Sleep Starts with Your Daytime Rest Habits & Routines

218: Making Rest a Habit: How to Build Rest Into Your Daily Routine

217: August Rest Series: Why Rest Really Matters in Our “Me Now” Years

216: August Rest Series: A Rest Meditation - What Does Rest Feel Like for you?

215: If the Purpose of Life Is to be happy , Why Aren’t We Happy?

214: July Joy Series: Pain, Suffering, and Happiness in Our Relationships with Ourselves and Others

213: July Joy Series – How Rejoicing in the Joy of Others can Increase your Happiness

212: July Joy Series – Raising Your Happiness Level with The Habit Thrive Cup

211: Joy Series: How Mindfulness Clears the Way for Joy

210: Why Joy Feels So Hard Right Now: Midlife and the Double Whammy

209: Habit Practice ~ How to Reset Your Nervous System with Just Your Breath.m4a

208: You Don’t Have to Exercise Perfectly – How Movement Morsels Help You Build Health One Habit at a Time

207: Mindful Balance: The Movement Habits and Routines That Support Your Me Now Years

206: 3 Ways to Add More Flexibility in Your Me Now Years

205: Strength Training, Strong Backs & Knowing When NOT to Lift the Cottage Fridge

204: Cardio Confidence — Your Heart, Your Pace After 50

203: May Movement: Setting the Stage for the Type and Amount of Exercise Women Need in Our Me Now Years

202: Boost Your Spring Energy with Ayurveda: Dry Brushing, Coconut Oil Abhyanga, Clearing Clutter & More

201: Spring Habits: What Do Iyengar Yoga, Fruit, and Eating to 80% Full Have in Common?

200: Do This One Movement Every Morning to Boost Energy & Mood This Spring (Ayurvedic Kapha Reset)

199: Feeling Heavy This Spring? Do the Opposite (Ayurvedic Reset for Energy)

198: A Spring Reset : Ayurvedic Habits to Harmonize with Spring & Feel Energized

197: Create Your Best Possible Outcome: A Mindful Visualization Habit for Cultivating Optimism & Restful Sleep

196: From Snowstorms to Spring: A Spring Equinox Shift into the Habit of Cultivating Optimism

195: Let’s Travel Boldly

194: Your Next Bold Move…..Part 2

193: Your Next Bold Move: Habits, Routines & Our Me Now Women’s Wellness Wheel

192: The Push & Pull of the Year of the Fire Horse: Forge ahead without Burning Out - Self Care Practices

191: 4 Self Practices: Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion, Self-Love and Self-Care (Part 2)

190: 4 Self Practices for February: Self Acceptance, Self Compassion, Self Love, and Self-Care

189: Mindfulness & Heartfulness: Calming the Mind with the Power of the Heart

188: 3 Gentle Habits (Daylight, Oil & Movement) that Create a Steadier Day

187: Habits That Unsteady Us — What’s Quietly Draining Your Energy and Calm

186: Habits that Steady us in an Unsteady World

185: A Bold Invitation to 2026: Habits, Routines, and Rituals to Help You Thrive

184: Listening, Living & Thriving: Honouring the Habits, Routines & Rituals That Carry Us — A 2025 Wrap-Up and Bold Invitation for 2026

183: Making Podcast Listening Easy: Habits, Routines, Rituals & Holiday Exploration

182: Why Podcasts Are the Perfect Wellness Ritual for Women in Their Me Now Years

181: Understanding chronic pain through habits, routines & rituals: A mind-body conversation with Natalie St-Denis

180: Just Breathe: The Simple Daily Habit Practice that Reduces Stress and Restores Calm

179: Embrace Your Creative Side: How Small Habits Boost Energy, Confidence & Joy in Our Me-Now Years

178: How Your “Me Now” Habits Help You Reframe Self-Talk, Self-Care, and Excuses

177: Finding Rhythm in the Light & Dark: How your habits, routines and rituals ground you

176: “Fall Back” with Mindfulness: Habits, Routines, and Rituals for November Self-Care

175: Sleep Series: Part IV – Mindfulness: The Gateway to Habits, Routines, Rituals and Rest.

174: Sleep Series: Part III – The Evening Ritual: From Dinner to Dreamland

173: Sleep Series: Part II - Sleep Myths & Mindset Shifts: A Better Way to Rest

172: Sleep in Our ‘Me Now’ Years: A 4-Part Podcast Series for Women – Part 1 – Why Sleep Matters

171: Seasonal Shifts: Closing September’s Habits and Routines and Opening October’s Sleep Reset & Rituals

170: Ayurvedic Wisdom to Strengthen Belief in Your Habits & Routines

169: Believing in Your Everyday Habits: The Secret Sauce to Making Them Count”

168: Why Your Daily Rhythm Matters: Sleep, Health & Habits in our Me Now Years

167: Getting Yourself Out of a Hole: A Simple Daily Habit to Reduce Stress and Cultivate Optimism

166: When Me Now Becomes Now What? A Loving Tribute

165: A Nourishing Breath Ritual for August Self-Care

164:The One-Minute Mindfulness Habit Hack: A Simple Ritual for Calmer Days in August

163: Relaxation Reimagined: A Skill You Grow, a Habit You Keep, a Ritual You Cherish

162: August: The Sunday of Summer - Habits, Routines, & Rituals to Reset and Renew

161: Three Years In - Habits, Routines, & Rituals that continue to Lighten me up in my Me Now Years

160: Mindfulness ~A Habit for Keeping Your Cool: An Interview with Mindfulness Teacher and Former Monk Stephen Schettini

159: 2 Cooling Summer Breaths to Calm Your Body and Mind: A Ritual for Inner Chill

158: Spring-to-Summer Habit Shift for Women 50+: 3 Uplifting Steps to Realign with the Season

157: Listening Forward to Wise Women: Shift Your Habits to Amplify Your Happiness, Peace, and Perspective

156: Lime, Mint & Me: A Juicy little Ayurvedic Summer Ritual

155: Ayurvedic Abhyanga: Nourishing Your Skin, Mind & Body for the Summer Ahead

154: My #1 Breath Practice for Managing Overwhelm and Reclaiming Calm

153: Feel your Best Every Day: Habits and Rituals for Weekly Energy & Seasonal Balance

152: The Habit of Slowing Down: How to Avoid Spring Overwhelm

151: How to Release Decluttering Shame: An Ayurvedic Perspective to Help you Feel Lighter and More Aligned

150: Boosting your Happiness: Why Now is the Time to Sharpen Your Social Skills Habits

149: From Restriction to Rhythm: Nourishing your Body and Mind In Your Me Now Years with Lorene Sauro

148: Why a Long Exhale Is the Self-Care Habit Every Woman in her Me Now Years Needs

147: How Traveling Boosts Gratitude for Your Life & Your Daily Habits

146: April - The Messy Middle: Habits and Routines to Embrace the In-Between

145: Designing Your Spring and Summer with Intention: Why Themes Work Better Than Goals

144: Spring Equinox Rituals to Anchor, Renew, and Empower Women in Our Me Now Years!

143: Writing a "Future Me" Letter - How to use this simple habit to get things done, reduce stress, and celebrate your win

142: Springing Forward: How to Harness the Time Change to Reset your Habits & Routines

141: My Top 5 Heart-Healthy Habits to Wrap Up Heart Month

140: Your Heart-Brain Connection: Daily Habits to Stay Sharp, Strong & Thriving

139: Science-Backed Benefits of Hugging: The Daily Habit to boost your happiness, immunity, connection and joy

138: The Habit of Mantras Reducing Anxiety and Increasing Healing and Happiness with Suzanne Mongrain-Smith

137: Ocean Rituals: The Healing Sound of Huatulco, Mexico

136: Resting the Ayurvedic Way: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Relaxation

135: Stress Relief and Burnout Prevention: Habits for Harmony in Midlife with Dr. Camila Moore

134: Rest and Reset: One Simple Habit to Let go and Refresh

133: Embracing January Themes, Goals, Habit and Routines

132: Making a Calm Habit: Your Personalized Recipe for 2025

131: The Elusive Search for Balance—And Why It’s Overrated (Especially Over the Holidays)

130: A Grounding Ritual for More Calm and More Joy

129: Combining Routines & Rituals for Holiday Peace, Calm & Joy

128: Reclaiming Decembers: Holiday Rituals to Reclaim our Holiday Joy

127: Are You Ready to Rock Your Sleep Habits and Routine This Holiday Season?

126: A Digital Detox Ritual for Better Sleep: An Interview with Loftie Founder Matthew Hassett

125: Nighttime Breathing Ritual: Your Guide to Returning to a Blissful Sleep

124: Five of My Favourite Phrases to Help Me Get Into and Stay Asleep

123: Let Go Into a Blissful Sleep: Your Evening Letting Go Ritual

122: Why is it so challenging to start and maintain a healthy daily routine?

121: The #1 Sleep Habit Hack for Sleep Success

120: Breath Technique - Pause Breath

119. 5 Steps to a Fit, Fearless and Fabulous Fall Season: Step 5 Hygge it up!

118. 5 Steps to a Fit, Fearless & Fabulous Fall Season - Step 4: Meditation

117. 5 Steps to a Fit, Fearless & Fabulous Fall Season - Step 3: MOVE With the Fall Season

116: Five Steps to a Fit, Fearless, and Fabulous Fall Season - Step 2: Change It Up

115: 5 Steps to a Fit, Fearless and Fabulous Fall Season

114: Social: To Be or Not To Be - A Habit Approach

113: Balancing Deadlines and Relaxation - A Habit Approach for August

112: An August Habit Practice: Mindfulness

111. How to “Begin Again” Each Month: Welcome to August, the Sunday of Summer

110. The #1 Reason I Love Ayurveda

109. Gratitude in July & Envisioning August: Embracing your Summer Rituals and Rhythms

108. Super Easy and Fun Summer Self-Care Skincare Rituals: An interview with Holistic Skin Therapist Shari Miller

107: What’s up with sleep issues in the summer? [July Habits, Routines & Rituals]

106: Why is strength training so difficult for me? An Ayurvedic Perspective

105. How to Create a Mindful Strength Habit

104: How to create a Strength Habit, Routine, or Ritual

103: A Strength Challenge

102: From Wheelchair to Weightlifting to Empowering Women: An Interview with Kim Rahir

101. What is the best time of day to exercise? May Mindful Movement Series

100. Celebrating 100 Episodes of Habits, Routines & Rituals!

99. Habit Stacking Movement and Exercise? May Mindful Movement Series

98. May Movement Series: Can We Make Ourselves Love Exercise? - An Ayurvedic Perspective

97. Three Ways to Know if Your New Habits and Routines are Making a Difference

96. Ayurvedic Spring Habits and Routines: What to Delete or Shift for a Happy and Healthy Spring (Part 2)

95. Ayurvedic Spring Habits and Routines: What to Add for a Happy and Healthy Spring (Part 1)

94. A wave meditation from Turks and Caicos

93. How Mindfulness gives you the power to choose the habit, routine or technique that works the best for you

92. How Tapping (EFT) Can Power Up your Summer Plans: An Interview with Lindsay Hindle

91. Why we should be planning for our summer now … and why we don’t

90. Caring for our Heart Habits in our “Freedom” Years: An interview with Jane Hogan, The Wellness Engineer

89. Evening Rituals and Morning Routines for Health and Happiness

88. Heart Habit Hacks to Manage your Emotions

87. Heart-Loving Habits: How to Create Them & How to Stick With Them

86. Three Challenges to Embracing our Me Now Years and How to Overcome them

85. Are you in your Me Now Years?

84. Finding happiness in every day {Mini Habit Practice}

83. The Benefit of Breaking your Habits and Routines (Now and Again)

82. How the Habit of Writing a Letter to your Future Self can Change your Day, your Sleep and your Life!

81. Knowing when Enough is Enough: A Mindful Habit Approach to Reduce Overwhelm

80. Recommitting and Reconnecting to your Goals, Habits & Routines

79. The Habit of Slowing Down - 3 Tips to Make this Happen

78. The Power of Planning your Peace

77. A Loving Kindness Meditation for Calm, Peace & Letting Go {Mini Habit Practice}

76. Why Sleep Should be a Non-Negotiable Habit for the Holidays and How to Get it

75. Do you know the habits that serve and support you the most?

74. The Power of Monthly Rituals: Nurturing Self-Care Through Routine

73. Three Ways to Make this a Month of Self Care

72. Ayurvedic Seasonal Eating Habits and Routines to Nourish and Ground

71. How Ayurveda and Our Self-Care Habits & Routines Can Help us Navigate this Fall Time Change (and all Change)

70. How Simply Asking “Why” Enhances our Gratitude, Mindfulness and Wellbeing

69. The Power of Gratitude to Change our Habit of Comparing Ourselves to Others

68. How a Mindfulness Routine Strengthens Gratitude

67. Three Reasons Why Your Gratitude Practice May Not Be Working

66. Rock your Habits & Routines to Rock your Life For Women 50 & Beyond

65. The Best Kept Secret for Increasing your Happiness at 50 & Beyond

64. How the Habit of Exercise Boosts our Happiness

63. Planning Happiness: Managing the Mundane to Manifest the Marvelous

62. Why Planning your Happiness is a Self Care Habit Worth a Try

61. Timing your Relaxation Habits for a Blissful Sleep

60. How to Hone your Habit of Relaxing Amid the Chaos

59. Making Relaxation a Habit Using the C.A.R.E. Method

58: The Relaxation Paradox: We Know We Should and Why We Can't

57. Are your Habits and Routines Leaving you Feeling Fit, Fearless and Fabulous?

56. Chill & Thrill: Cool Stuff in your Kitchen and Garden

55. Keeping Your Cool…Habits That Help!

54. Your July Joy List Sprinkled with Mindfulness & Self Care

53. An Interview with Kelly Howard, Author of FIT: Active & Ageless for Life

52. Tweaking our Strength Habits to Get Stronger

51. Should I Be Ramping Up My Walking Habit?

50. Summer Fitness and The WTF of your Walking Habit

49. An Interview with Mel Mason, Clutter Expert & Author of "Freedom From Clutter"

48. How We Do One Thing is How We Do Everything

47. Digital Decluttering - Are You Ready?

46. Decluttering the Heart-Heavy Stuff

45. Decluttering Your Way to Happiness: A Fun & Fresh Yogic Approach

44. Feeling in a Funk? Press Play

43. A Wave Meditation from the Bahamas

42. Is worrying a habit we can change?

41. How tweaking your habits makes you a better decision maker

40. How Spring Strengthens our Patience Habit

39. Spring Habit Shake-Up

38. Now's the time to Visualize an Awesome Summer!

37. Taking Advantage of the Spring Forward Time Change

36. New Month, New Season, New Opportunities

35. Opening and Aligning your Heart Chakra (A Meditation)

34. Caring for our Physical, Emotional and Future Me Hearts

33. The Easiest and Most Accessible Technique for Heart Health

32. Whole Heart Living - What does this mean to you?

31. An Interview with Kate Galliett, author of “Becoming Unbreakable: How to Build a Body you Love to Live in”

30. How to Feel Better

29. A Habit Loop for an Alcohol Free January

28. A New Year...A New Chapter: When to Rest and When to Move

27. The Habit of Stress (Part 5) Harnessing our Stress for an Awesome 2023!

26. The Habit of Stress (Part 4) The Power of Peace (Aum Shanti) with Suzanne Mongrain-Smith

25. The Habit of Stress (Part 3) Can Yoga Help?

24. The Habit of Stress (Part 2) The CALM™ Method with Nikki Gangemi

23. The Habit of Stress (Part 1)

22. Sleep Success (Part 4): Strategies to Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep

21. Sleep Success (Part 3): A Good Day's Waking Leads to a Good Night's Sleeping

20. Sleep Success (Part 2): Creating Your Evening Sleep Ritual

19. Sleep Success (Part 1): Putting Yourself to Sleep

18. Gratitude: Wrapping it Up With a Bow

17. Gratitude: During challenging times

16. Gratitude: How a gratitude practice can be like brushing your teeth

15. Gratitude: How taking photos strengthens our gratitude muscles

14. Gratitude: Why is it so powerful, and how do I make it a habit?

13. Planning Happiness - Should Happiness be Easy? (#4 of 4 Episodes)

12. Planning Happiness - Keeping the Flow ( #3 of 4 Episodes)

11. My favorite habit hack for better health and more happiness

10. Planning Happiness: Starting with the Rhythm of your Day ( #1 of 4 Episodes)

9. Your Meditation Practice : When to know if and when to throw in the towel

8. Taking your Meditation "To the Streets"

7. Will Meditation and Yoga really change my life?

6. Meditation - Why Bother?

5. How location and values influence your habits and routines

4. What do you want more of? What do you want less of?

3. How to build habits that last and help you live a healthier and happier life

2. It’s finally time to focus on yourself! How to be intentional about the next chapter of your life and prioritize yourself

1. Designing your next chapter: Why changing your habits according to seasonal changes leads to a more fulfilling life

Welcome Habit Thrivers!