Luminary LifeKits

About Luminary LifeKits

The Vibrant Mom Podcast is for midlife moms who are ready to stop pushing through and start feeling truly vibrant in their emotions, their body, and their life. Hosted by Cara Maiolo, Licensed Professional Counselor and Women's Health Specialist, each episode delivers expert guidance, real conversations, and practical tools to help you develop the inner skill, aligned action, and support you need to thrive in this season. Topics include emotional wellness, perimenopause, midlife health, identity evolution, stress, motherhood, and the beautiful complexity of becoming your most vibrant self. This is your free front row seat to the work we do together.

Publisher

Cara Maiolo, LPC

Category

education · health & fitness · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2025

Latest episode

28 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

24 of 63 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Perimenopause and Mental Health: Steady the Ground, Then Do the Inner Work

   Host Cara Maiolo interviews Dr. Mary Claire Haver about navigating perimenopause's mental health shifts through medical care and inner work for vibrant well-being.

2. 

   21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Midlife Strength: Training Your Body and Your Emotions Together

   Host Cara Maiolo interviews listeners on building midlife strength to enhance physical energy, emotional resilience, and overall capacity for life's challenges.

3. 

   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   You'd Never Say That to a Friend: Getting Curious About Your Inner Critic

   Host Dr. Cara Maiolo explores how moms can cultivate self-compassion to quiet their inner critic and struggle well, offering practical tools for resilience.

Inside a recent episode

Perimenopause and Mental Health: Steady the Ground, Then Do the Inner Work

Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Or especially in early perimenopause, whatever you would normally experience as a PMS symptom just feels like the dial has been turned up, the irritability, the emotionality, the sensitivity, the low energy. or any of the other physical or mood and cognitive changes you experienced as a PMS symptom before perimenopause, think about those maybe getting turned up quite a bit. For many women, anxiety starts to crop up and it either comes when it wasn't typically the way that you experience the world or even if you have kind of a history of being on the more anxious side of things, it feels like it worsens sometimes. disproportionate to the life stressors that you're experiencing and disproportionate to any like therapy work, mental health work, or skills that you had acquired prior to manage your anxiety. […]

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