09/24/2026
🎙️ I’m so thrilled to welcome author Kate Washington to the Becoming Podcast this month!
This episode of The Becoming Podcast is for anyone who has felt like they’ve lost themselves in caregiving, or in the demands of midlife. This month, author Kate Washington joins me on the pod to talk about her commitment to do 50 wild swims before her 50th birthday, the deeper meaning that commitment held for her, and the book she wrote about the whole thing.
Here’s some of what Kate and I talk about in this episode:
✔️ The back story of how she arrived at deciding to do 50 wild swims before her 50th birthday, following many years of caregiving for her husband who had become very ill. Kate shares about the day she told her husband she wanted a divorce, and about how wild swimming helped her reclaim her time, energy and selfhood after so many years of supporting everyone else
✔️ The challenge of claiming time to oneself when everyone around you has gotten used to you being available to meet their needs
✔️ How caregiving often ends up on women’s shoulders, because of both our personal and societal socialization
✔️ The moment she realized that she didn’t want to model the version of midlife, motherhood, and womanhood that she was living for her daughters
✔️ How Kate found that coming back home to herself meant remembering the things that used to bring her joy when she was younger, and how important fun, playfulness and pleasure was to this part of her journey
✔️ My favourite quote from our interview? Kate said: “The biggest task of my midlife has been to reintegrate all the selves that I have been.” YES! May it be so for all of us.
🔗 Head over to the link in my bio or wherever you get your podcasts to tune in!
