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Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

著者： MJ Murray Vachon LCSW
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Coping Skills for Midlife Stress and Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Forget the midlife crisis—how 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, you’ll 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 life’s 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 centered—ending 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 week’s topic, helping you apply these skills in real life.

Let’s evolve from crisis to calm—and make midlife your most balanced and fulfilling chapter yet.
🎧 Start with listener favorite Ep. 138 to feel the difference calm can make.

© 2025 Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Ep. 220 Why Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Overwhelm in Midlife Brings More Calm To Your Holidays

    Ep. 220 Why Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Overwhelm in Midlife Brings More Calm To Your Holidays
    2025/12/15

    Do the holidays feel heavier because you’re carrying stress, anxiety, and overwhelm you barely had room for in the first place?
    You’re not alone if this season amplifies everything your midlife brain is already managing.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:
    1. The real difference between stress, anxiety, and overwhelm—and why holiday pressure intensifies all three
    2. What happens in your midlife brain and body when you’ve quietly exceeded capacity
    3. How understanding overwhelm helps you reclaim clarity and calm without adding anything to your plate
    Take 9 minutes to bring more calm to your holidays—you’re worth it.

    Send us a text




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    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.

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    9 分
  • Ep. 219 — Stop People-Pleasing: Coping Skills for Midlife Anxiety & Stress to Help You Set Boundaries and Stand in Your Authentic Self

    Ep. 219 — Stop People-Pleasing: Coping Skills for Midlife Anxiety & Stress to Help You Set Boundaries and Stand in Your Authentic Self
    2025/12/11

    Do you ever feel like you’re stuck saying yes when every part of you wants to say no?
    People-pleasing may look helpful on the outside, but it fuels midlife anxiety and stress while leaving you disconnected from what you really want.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:

    1. How to notice the wave of feelings that trigger people-pleasing.
    2. Why anchoring in your breath helps break the fawning cycle.
    3. How the FAWN steps—Feel, Anchor, Watch, Name—move you from automatic yes to standing strong.

    Take 11 minutes to stop people-pleasing and start standing steady in your truthIn Appreciation of Episode 200! Join me for a free workshop:



    Send us a text




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    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.

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    12 分
  • Ep. 218 How "People-Pleasing" Fuels Midlife Anxiety, Stress, and Anger—And Silences What You Really Want

    Ep. 218 How "People-Pleasing" Fuels Midlife Anxiety, Stress, and Anger—And Silences What You Really Want
    2025/12/08

    Do you ever wonder why you say yes when you want to say no—only to feel anxious, resentful, or even angry afterward?

    You’re not alone—people-pleasing is one of the most common hidden drivers of midlife anxiety and stress.

    In this episode, you’ll discover:

    1. What people-pleasing (or fawning) really is, and why it’s more than just “being nice.”

    2. Why it silently fuels midlife anxiety, stress, and anger—damaging both your self-respect and your relationships.

    3. The hidden causes of people-pleasing, from social conditioning and family systems to trauma and sensitivity.

    🎧 Take 13 minutes to understand the roots of people-pleasing, and begin reclaiming your truth—you’re worth it.


    Send us a text




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    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.

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    14 分
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