“This is for the people who are not in the long process of giving up. It has everything to do with age, but nothing to do with your job, your gender or whatever or whether you live in Orange County or hazard county. It has to do with being who you are and owning it,” stated my Caddis glass’ case. I’m not a Caddis influencer —yet – but I love this mission that I hope I land on a campaign.

I’m not one for small goals, after all!

Not only do my new tortoise shell glasses get lots of compliments, boldly flat near my brows with rounded bottoms hiding my tired eyes, but they have made wearing frames so much fun. From doctors office waiting rooms to check out lines to my DMs, everyone mentions my D28’s from Caddis. The funky eyewear gives me the jolt of energetic shift that lightning brings to dark clouds.

I’m not new to following wellness and mid-life brands, the algorithm knows me well. Caddis popped in my feed during Covid when my eyes were still, well, just needing magnifiers. Now, my eyes blur every six months, a sign of Aging and confusion. “Can my eyes really have changed again so soon, I wake up wondering twice a year.” It’s hard not to notice a major organ changing so rapidly while reading a sign or driving a carpool but the shock hasn’t worn off yet either.

I’m ok with growing older and being an expert in many areas. Aging gracefully imposes an unsustainable perfectionist altitude. Living up to sky high physical, mental, personal and professional water mark is not anything I signed up for lately.

My imperfections are stories. My laugh lines are levity. My scars are deeper wounds bellying up to the surface.

Like the Caddis brand, I’m embracing my middle age ailments as a sign I’ve arrived and I’m right on time.

From the Caddis about us webpage: “We believe that it is time to get real about who we are and where we are in life.”

Recent vision ‘corrections’ have helped me stay true to my soul’s purpose, lowering my own expectations of myself combined with a hard earned forgiveness for for not always enjoying the ride to get to my late forties.

Middle age shifts bring to light major purpose driven focal areas. Wearing the D28- progressives-turtle frames is a sign of, excuse the pun, getting clearer even when things shift. It’s about knowing what you do want to do and knowing what you don’t want to do. And thank you, Caddis D28s, for reminding me that it’s all a process. It’s about seeing clearly, perhaps through journaling or a deep intuitive sense that allows me to know who I am and only then, think about more shifts or shedding.

Try these middle age knowing prompts.

List all the things you know already:

• Your tastes (from food to books to plays to places)

• Your strengths (where is your expertise)

• Your dislikes (what turns your stomach, gives you a headache, pet peeves)

• What is making you angry when your values are stepped on?

• Your core values

Now allow for what’s shifting with these unknown prompts:

1. What’s coming or what’s next might feel fuzzy, what do you intuitively know is coming your way

2. How to feel abundant after a loss or dip in your life

3. How you will get over Grief after a big loss

4. What you want to do next

I’d Love to see your list— email me your knowns & unknowns to [email protected] or reply here. By then I’ll have a new frame in my office of this Caddis tagline: “We’re here to call out the whole fountain of youth illusion, industries that profit from the fear of getting older and the concept of “aging gracefully.”

Lynn Mull Holistic Career Coach & Author

Career Coach | Author | WellNess Advisor | Reiki Master
I offer Clarity through Reiki healing sessions, and Holistic Career Coaching and Facilitating Teams to professional wellness. I use various tools and methods to speak, write, and provide 1.1 counsel to move out of the stuck into the actions that help you or your teams reach their goals.I found my way because I had to create it.
As a working parent and a sandwich caregiver in my early 30s, I understand the pressures to keep going, provide for my family and prioritize everyone else’s wellbeing.

I looked in many corners and could not find one coach to break into my inner blockages and move my career until Reiki and a Career Coach got me there. We can be all the things to everyone, but first, we must get aligned and intuitively move forward for our own .