Send us Fan Mail

You bought something for yourself last week. Something small. Something completely reasonable. And the guilt arrived before you had even finished paying for it.

You are not alone in that. And it is not about money.

For many midlife women, spending money on themselves triggers a response that feels almost physical — a tightening, a second-guessing, a quiet voice that asks whether you really needed it, whether you really deserve it, whether you should have spent that money on something more responsible. On someone else.

That voice is not a financial problem. It is a self-worth problem. And in the final episode of The Unfinished GLOW’s Women’s History Month series, PK — Dr. Peggie Kirkland — names it precisely, traces it to its roots, and offers a completely different way to hold your relationship with money.

In this episode you will find:

• Why spending money on yourself feels wrong — and the surprisingly deep reason it has nothing to do with being irresponsible

• The structural and historical context that explains why so many women carry financial guilt

• The house metaphor that gives you a completely new way to understand where you are in your financial life — without judgment

• The deeper reframe that changes everything: how you manage money is a form of self-respect

• Five practical, do-able financial wellness steps calibrated specifically for midlife women

• The three words that are the most important financial education you will ever receive

This is not a lecture about spreadsheets. This is a conversation about what you believe you deserve. And you deserve abundance in every form.

This is the series finale of the seven-part series celebrating women.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and find everything at https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com

🎙️ This episode is part of the Series Celebrating Women— seven conversations about the seven dimensions of self-care that midlife women deserve to prioritize.

Listen to the full series here: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com

The Full Series:

👉Episode #1: Empty Nester & Midlife Mental Health: Signs You May Need Support & How to Get It

👉Episode #2: Midlife Fitness and Longevity: Caring for the Only Body You Have

👉Episode #3: Social Wellness for Midlife Women: Why Your Friendships Are Literally Keeping You Alive

👉Episode # 4: Feeling Overwhelmed in Midlife? Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You Something

👉Episode #5: When Did You Erase Yourself From Your Own Life?

👉Episode #6: Feeling Lost in Midlife? Your North Star Has Been There All Along

👉Episode #7: Why Does Spending Money on Myself Feel So Wrong? Financial Wellness in Midlife

🔔 Connect with Dr. PK
Website: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momsmotivations
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mommotivates

Send us Fan Mail

You are going through the motions of a life that looks completely fine from the outside.

And yet. Something is hollow in the middle of it. Like the color has turned down a few notches. Like you are living in your life but not quite inhabiting it. Like you used to know what your life was for — and somewhere in the middle of all the giving and the doing and the showing up, that knowing got very quiet.

If you have been sitting with a version of that feeling — the hollow, the grey, the vague but persistent sense that something is missing even when nothing is obviously wrong — this episode is for you.

In this episode, PK — Dr. Peggie Kirkland explores what spiritual wellness actually means for midlife women, why so many of us lose our sense of purpose and meaning during this season of life, and what it looks like to find your way back to the fixed point that has been there all along.

In this episode you will find:

• Why feeling hollow inside a life that looks fine from the outside is not ingratitude — it is spiritual depletion, and it is far more common in midlife women than we ever talk about

• The North Star metaphor that reframes the question ‘what is my life for?’ from a crisis into a navigation tool

• The research on values alignment and why living out of sync with what you actually believe creates chronic stress in the body

• Five questions that will tell you more about your North Star than any personality test ever could

• One specific fifteen-minute practice that begins to close the gap between the life you are living and the life you actually value

Your North Star has not disappeared. You have just been too busy to look up and find it. This episode helps you look up.

🎙️ This episode is part of the Series Celebrating Women— seven conversations about the seven dimensions of self-care that midlife women deserve to prioritize.

Listen to the full series here: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com

The Full Series:

👉Episode #1: Empty Nester & Midlife Mental Health: Signs You May Need Support & How to Get It

👉Episode #2: Midlife Fitness and Longevity: Caring for the Only Body You Have

👉Episode #3: Social Wellness for Midlife Women: Why Your Friendships Are Literally Keeping You Alive

👉Episode # 4: Feeling Overwhelmed in Midlife? Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You Something

👉Episode #5: When Did You Erase Yourself From Your Own Life?

👉Episode #6: Feeling Lost in Midlife? Your North Star Has Been There All Along

👉Episode #7: Why Does Spending Money on Myself Feel So Wrong? Financial Wellness in Midlife

🔔 Connect with Dr. PK
Website: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momsmotivations
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mommotivates

Send us Fan Mail

You are good at your job. You show up. You deliver. You have been doing it for years.

So why does it feel like there is nothing left inside it?

If you have ever felt like you are going through the motions — present in body but absent in spirit, carrying on with everything while feeling completely numb on the inside — this episode is for you.

In Episode 5 of our Women's History Month series, PK names something that most women carry quietly for years without ever having the right words for it. It is not laziness. It is not ingratitude. It is what happens when a woman has been so busy showing up for everyone else that she has gradually — one skipped walk, one unanswered feeling, one "fine, busy, you know" at a time — erased herself from her own life.

And the worst part? It happens so gradually that most women do not notice until one day they look in the mirror and think: I am not sure I know who that woman is anymore.

In this episode, you will hear:

Why professional burnout is not just a work problem — it bleeds into your relationships, your parenting, your sleep, and your physical health

Why the question "what do you do?" has quietly become the answer to "who are you?" — and what that costs you

The oxygen mask principle — and why putting yourself first is not selfish, it is the only strategy that actually works

Seven practical, research-grounded strategies for reclaiming your professional health in a hybrid, always-on world

And the reframe that changes everything: the women who navigate professional transitions with the most grace are not the ones who loved their work less. They are the ones who loved themselves more.

You do not have to do it all. You do not have to do it perfectly. And you do not have to do it alone.

If this episode spoke to something deep inside of you that you may not have spoken out loud, please leave a review at: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com

🎙️ This episode is part of the Series Celebrating Women— seven conversations about the seven dimensions of self-care that midlife women deserve to prioritize.

Listen to the full series here: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com

The Full Series:

👉Episode #1: Empty Nester & Midlife Mental Health: Signs You May Need Support & How to Get It

👉Episode #2: Midlife Fitness and Longevity: Caring for the Only Body You Have

👉Episode #3: Social Wellness for Midlife Women: Why Your Friendships Are Literally Keeping You Alive

👉Episode # 4: Feeling Overwhelmed in Midlife? Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You Something

👉Episode #5: When Did You Erase Yourself From Your Own Life?

👉Episode #6: Feeling Lost in Midlife? Your North Star Has Been There All Along

👉Episode #7: Why Does Spending Money on Myself Feel So Wrong? Financial Wellness in Midlife

Thanks to RDNE Stock project for use of the image

🔔 Connect with Dr. PK
Website: https://www.mommasmotivationalmessages.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momsmotivations
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mommotivates