Self-Permission is
the missing piece in Female Longevity.
Dr. Oksana Skidan | Author · Educator · Podcast Host
I write about the pressure midlife women carry—and how Self-Permission changes the way we meet it.
Pressure is inevitable.
Self-Permission is how you meet it.
People do not live at the level
of their potential. They live
at the level of their self-permission.
Midlife brings more information, more expectations, more decisions, more pressure.
Women are told how to age, how to eat, how to exercise, how to parent, how to work, how to rest, how to look, how to change.
At some point, more advice is not the answer.
Not everything needs more thought.
Some things need Self-Permission.
Meet Dr. Oksana Skidan
I learned how to achieve early. Self-Permission took longer.
I’m Dr. Oksana Skidan — former concert pianist, immigrant, author of The Courage to Know and founder of Create Your Midlife™.
I survived stages, borders, and a country at war.
Nothing prepared me for the pressure of being a midlife woman in America.
I write about that pressure — and how Self-Permission changes the way we meet it.
Self-Permission is knowing what is right for you—and allowing yourself to act from there.
The book
The Courage to Know
Thirty-two lessons from a life on stage, across borders, and through everything in between.
By the last page you will have thirty-two new ways to look at fear, pressure, the power of a favorite song — and what happens when the thing you were most afraid of actually takes place.
This book will also change the way you look at your own past — from a place of power and endless resources.
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Create Your Midlife
Podcast
Conversations about the life a woman is still creating—and everything that gets in the way.
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Essays on Self-Permission, female longevity, and the pressure women carry.
There will always be opinions.
There will always be expectations.
There will always be pressure.
At some point, a woman needs somewhere
inside herself to return.
I Have Myself.
What do I think?
What do I know?
What is true for me?
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