What if 2026 wasn’t about dieting harder, exercising more, or fixing what’s “wrong”—but about intentionally creating how you want to feel?

In this powerful New Year episode of Girlish Gurus, Lorraine & Joy invite midlife women to release traditional resolutions and explore manifesting through science, compassion, and Clarity, inspired by Dr. James R. Doty’s book Mind Magic.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why resolutions often fail midlife women
• How manifesting works with your brain and nervous system
• The difference between restriction and intention
• Dr. Doty’s 6-step Mind Magic framework for manifesting
• How compassion accelerates clarity and calm
• Why focusing on how you want to feel changes everything

This episode is your permission slip to stop fighting your body, trust your inner Wisdom, and step into 2026 with alignment—not pressure.

🎧 Listen now and begin manifesting a year that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

*Mind Magic by Dr. James Doty

* The Vagus Nerve Fix by Lorraine Miano

*Life Line Screening

Don’t forget to check out these related episodes:

The Vagus Nerve Fix: Calm Your Mind, Nourish Your Body & Reset Your Life

Into the Magic Shop: Rewiring the Heart & Brain Through Compassion, Intention, and Healing

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:00 Manifesting

3:29 Why don’t resolutions work

4:25 Manifesting as a nervous system friendly alternative

5:44 Mind Magic by Dr. James Doty 

11:08 Manifesting science

11:51 Dispositional optimism

13:42 Negativity bias and fight or flight

15:39 The parasympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve

16:35 The four different parts of your brain

25:55 The six steps of manifesting

43:10 Exit

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Joy Alford-Brand is an attorney, author, public speaker and content creator. Joy graduated from Ohio State University College of Law in 1998. In 2014, she wrote her first book. The next year, she launched her first website, YouTube channel and social media presence. It was then that her new career as a content creator was born! A self-taught podcaster, Joy is passionate about helping people live their happiest and healthiest lives and uses podcasting to encourage women over 45 to live their best lives. She also likes to laugh, too! As a co-host of the Girlish Gurus podcast with her good friends Lorraine Miano and Susan Richardson, their is plenty of laughter and information in every episode.