Coaching practices for How to Know If You're in a Midlife Crisis or Just Unhappy
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Everything that used to give my life shape suddenly feels hollow and the new thing hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m stuck in this disorienting in-between
- I honestly can’t tell where I am in my own life right now
- My life looks fine until I open my phone and see what everyone else has, and then it instantly feels not enough
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- I’ve hit the goals I set and they feel strangely empty now, and what I quietly want is to pour what I’ve learned into someone coming up behind me
Practices that may help
- Navigate season transitions — the gap is normal and necessary
The confusion and loss of meaning between seasons is structural, not personal failure.
Seasons of Life - Identify your current season honestly
Name the season you are actually in — not the one you want to be in or the one others expect.
Seasons of Life - Audit your comparison set
Identify who and what you’re comparing yourself to — and whether that comparison is serving you.
The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency - Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical - Engage generativity — the natural work of midlife and later seasons
Midlife and later seasons are calling for contribution, mentorship, and transmission — not just personal achievement.
Seasons of Life - Identify noogenic (meaning-layer) problems, not just psychological ones
Ask whether your current suffering is about a psychological difficulty or a deeper question about meaning — because they require different responses.
Logotherapy: Dereflection - Audit the reference groups driving your spending
Identify whose lifestyle you’re unconsciously trying to match, and question whether that’s your actual target.
Lifestyle Creep: Why Raises Don’t Make You Richer - Use mortality as a priority filter
Ask: if I were significantly closer to the end, would I still care about this?
Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters - Identifying the turning points that shaped you
Single out the three to five moments where your trajectory genuinely changed — and examine what you made of them.
The Life Line Exercise - Tracking movement toward ideal self
Measure your progress toward your ideal self over time — not just relationship satisfaction.
The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
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- Changing Direction In Life
Single out the three to five moments where your trajectory genuinely changed — and examine what you made of them.
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Midlife and later seasons are calling for contribution, mentorship, and transmission — not just personal achievement.
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