07: Finding Your Center & Identity In The Second Half Of Life with Ryan Haddon
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Show Notes
Join me, Dr. Sarah Milken, in an honest and open conversation about finding our center and bringing meaning and purpose into our second half of life with Ryan Haddon. Ryan Haddon is a certified life and spiritual coach, hypnotherapist, and certified meditation teacher with over 16 years of experience with clients around the world. She is giving us the tools we need to become more centered and even find our identity in the second half of life.
We are going to dig deep into the details of Ryan’s journey of finding her soul’s purpose, and how her transition from Hollywood, CA to a farm in Pennsylvania, her spiritual and mental tools & her meditation practice changed her center entirely.
In this episode, we talk about finding our anchors, noticing our triggers and even how there have been some silver linings that came out of our 9 months in quarantine. Ryan explains that we are often leaning out of center, or looking for the next new thing and never are truly content with where we are or what we have... She even teaches us the tools to help find our centers… which is often a very challenging task for parents whose kids were once their center.
Ryan teaches us about hypnosis and how hypnosis unlocks the unconscious state when our brain is most impressionable and receptive to change. Hypnosis is similar to meditation, but instead of doing it alone, it is a guided meditation by a hypnotist or trained expert. Ryan gave me a hypnosis recording, during March Covid, where I learned my “Sarah Milken Special” meditation to do twice a week... to guide me through the second half of life. We talked about the fear of judgment, my self limiting beliefs and all other vulnerabilities that came with beginning my own self recreation journey, at age 45. Ryan was able to create the perfect hypnosis recording for me.
After listening to this episode, you will be able to start thinking about finding your center and jump head first into the new year with tools you need to start recreating today, judgment free.
Some highlights:
How changing her mindset, considering her anchors, and other tools helped find her center
How raising kids the second time around has been different
Tools to find your center
How to find your triggers
How to find a meditation practice that works for you
Putting your relationship with you first
How the path to sobriety changed Ryan’s life
How to re-find your center when your kids were once your center
Golden Nuggets from the episode:
Find your center
Notice your triggers
Find a meditation practice
Give yourself permission to reinvent
Be okay with letting go
Full transcript linked here.
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ryan haddon’s Bio:
Ryan Haddon is a certified life and spiritual coach, hypnotherapist, and certified meditation teacher with over 16 years of experience with clients around the world. She is a sought after public speaker for corporate retreats and wellness events. Ryan does private workshops such as “Stepping Into Your Purpose”, the “Work/Life Balance” and “Finding Your Center.” She's also the in-house life coach at Kourtney Kardashian’s website Poosh, where she shares her expertise on all things relationships, self care, growth and accessing your higher self. Ryan was a keynote speaker for the Visionary Women's 2020 virtual event and a featured speaker at CAA’s 2020 Global wellness event.
All things Ryan Haddon:
Fun Shit About Ryan:
Next on the bucket list
Writing my book!
Fuck it list
What anyone has to say about what I am doing
Secret Pleasure
Popcorn with ghee and brewers yeast
Fave Beauty Treatment
Skin Reset for hyperpigmentation
Fave “Woo woo” things
Visiting the sacred vortexes around the planet
Favorite TV shows
Last Kingdom
Outlander
Last Amazon Purchase
Various microphone pieces
Is intuition natural or do you work at it?
No, because I didn’t trust it at first. Curating that relationship with yourself so you can lean into it takes time. It is a gradual shift towards trusting your intuition and realizing that it is right.
Smallest thing we can do today to start our shift towards self recreation
Watch your thoughts. Listen to your self talk and how you speak to yourself. Notice it, write some of it down, and come up with different ways of managing your life through the lens of how you speak to yourself and how you view your life around you, and your life will shift quickly.
Bottom line advice for finding your sweet spot in the second half of life
Give yourself permission to reinvent. Give yourself permission to throw out old ideas, and drill down into what you want the next part of your life to look like and empower yourself to do it.
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