Dr. Oksana Skidan

10/20/2026

Motherhood after 40 deserves a different conversation! When our children leave for college, we deserve to feel proud of the years of love, dedication, and everything it took to raise them.

Because motherhood doesn’t end when our children leave home. Our role changes, but the love, the connection, and the place we hold in each other’s lives remain. There’s nothing empty about that! ❤️

10/19/2026

By midlife, many women have built beautiful lives. Family, career, relationships, accomplishments, responsibilities.

But somewhere in our 40s and 50s, we may begin to wonder whether the life we’ve built reflects the woman we’ve become.

Being grateful doesn’t mean we can’t want more. And wanting change doesn’t mean something is wrong.

That’s where Self-Permission comes in.

It’s not about starting over. It’s about having a say in your own life and allowing yourself to create what comes next.

What are you seeing differently about your life these days?

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10/16/2026

Pay attention to what you’re not allowing yourself to do, want, or enjoy. Pick one thing today and give yourself Self-Permission to change it.

10/12/2026

By midlife, we’ve spent decades learning, achieving, raising families, building careers, and becoming the women we are today.

And somehow, we’re still being told there’s a better version of us waiting somewhere!

I’m 52, and I’m becoming much more interested in enjoying the woman I’ve already become while staying curious about everything I still want to experience.

You can love who you are and still want more from life.

10/05/2026

I think one of the hardest things is to simply say:
I don’t know yet.

Not because we are incapable.
But because we are so used to needing an answer.
So used to being clear.
So used to moving quickly from question to conclusion.

And yet some of the most real parts of life do not work like that.

Sometimes you are still feeling your way through something.
Sometimes you are still understanding what changed.
Sometimes you need to live inside the question before you can speak about it honestly.

I’m learning to respect that space more.

To stop treating every unknown as something that has to be fixed.
To stop borrowing words too quickly.
To trust that my own understanding will come.

And until then, “I don’t know yet” is not a failure.
It is a very human place to be.

10/02/2026

My latest thoughts on midlife.

I am 52, my son is in college, and the culture already had a name for me before anyone asked a single question.

06/09/2026

Not chasing the next thing today. Just enjoying this one. What are you letting yourself enjoy today?

06/02/2026

I was listening to a speaker today, and it really upset me because of the techniques she was using. I’ve been planning to write about this for a while, but today I finally did.

Check out my new blog on my website—link in bio.

❤️

06/02/2026

A few moments from this evening.

Acrylic on paper.

05/27/2026

A few thoughts from this exact moment.

I keep realizing how much of life passes through us before we pause long enough to notice it.

What thoughts are moving through you right now?