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Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & RelationshipsAuthor: MJ Murray Vachon LCSW
Coping Skills for Midlife Stress and Anxiety in Family, Work & RelationshipsForget the midlife crisishow about creating midlife calm? The anxiety and stress of this life stage can drain your energy, fuel overthinking, and make it hard to enjoy what should be the best years of your life. This podcast offers practical coping skills to help you reduce anxiety, manage stress, and rediscover a calmer, more confident version of yourself.In Creating Midlife Calm, youll discover how to:Be happier, more present, and more effective at home and work.Transform stress and anxiety into powerful tools that boost your clarity, energy, and confidence.Cultivate calm and joy through practical, affordable coping skills that help you handle lifes daily challenges.Join MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, a seasoned therapist with over 50,000 hours of clinical experience and 32 years teaching mental wellness, as she guides you to reclaim your inner calm. Learn to stay grounded in the present, navigate midlife transitions with clarity, and build emotional resilience using proven coping tools.Every Monday, MJ dives into real stories and science-backed insights to help you shift from anxious to centeredending each episode with an Inner Challenge you can practice right away. Then, on Thursdays, she shares a brief follow-up episode that connects, deepens, or expands the weeks topic, helping you apply these skills in real life.Lets evolve from crisis to calmand make midlife your most balanced and fulfilling chapter yet. Start with listener favorite Ep. 138 to feel the difference calm can make. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Ep. 239 How to Stay with Meditation When Anxiety Flares—and the Coping Skills That Help You Heal (Part 2)
Episode 239
Thursday, 19 February, 2026
What happens when meditation brings up discomfort instead of calm—and you’re tempted to quit?If you’ve ever worried that meditation is making things worse, you’re having a very human experience—and you’re not alone.In this episode, you’ll discover:1. Why anxiety, overthinking, and old hurts often surface after you begin meditating in midlife2. How learning to “heel” your mind—rather than avoid it—builds real coping skills for anxiety that lead to calm3. Why staying with the practice gently transforms your relationship with your mind, body, and emotions Take 17 minutes to understand what healing actually looks like in midlife—you’re worth it.Phyllis Coletta, JDLearn to train your wild puppy mind...The Book: How to Be a Good DogApple Podcast: Sit, Stay, HealSend a text **** About the Host:MJ Murray Vachon LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 48,000 hours of therapy sessions and 31 years of experience teaching her Mental Wellness curriculum, Inner Challenge. Four years ago she overcame her fear of technology to create a podcast that integrated her vast clinical experience and practical wisdom of cultivating mental wellness using the latest information from neuroscience. MJ was Social Worker of the Year in 2011 for Region 2/IN.Creating Midlife Calm is a podcast designed to guide you through the challenges of midlife, tackling issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, feeling unworthy, procrastination, and isolation, while offering strategies for improving relationships, family support, emotional wellbeing, mental wellness, and parenting, with a focus on mindfulness, stress management, coping skills, and personal growth to stop rumination, overthinking, and increase confidence through self-care, emotional healing, and mental health support.
