Episode 32: I Haven't Left Yet (But I'm Already Gone)

In this week's episode of The Midlife Plot Twist Podcast, Jennifer shares that she's started a newsletter! She asks listeners to support the podcast by subscribing to Letters From a Woman in Midlife Crisis. She then reflects on the week's topic: the experience of physically remaining in a life that you have already emotionally outgrown. As she navigates uncertainty around returning to her university professor position while beginning a brand new Master’s program, Jennifer realizes she may be holding onto an identity past its time. In this episode, she explores the fear, grief, and disorientation that can come with emotionally leaving a career, relationship, or former version of yourself long before you officially let it go. Jennifer asks an important midlife question: What actually keeps us staying when we already know we’ve changed? If you’ve ever stayed in something out of responsibility, predictability, fear or because you didn’t know who you’d be without it, this episode is for you.