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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.

© 2026 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. 247 Why Cutting Back on Your Phone in Midlife Might Be the Wrong Coping Skill for Anxiety and Stress

    Ep. 247 Why Cutting Back on Your Phone in Midlife Might Be the Wrong Coping Skill for Anxiety and Stress
    2026/03/19

    Have you noticed that fighting your phone often leaves you feeling more anxious, tense, or deprived instead of calmer?
    You deserve a more fulfilling way forward.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:

    1. Why trying to restrict phone use can backfire and increase anxiety and stress in midlife
    2. How your phone quietly meets ancient human needs for connection, consuming, and creating—and how those needs are met matters to your nervous system
    3. How small, more fulfilling real-world shifts can bring back enjoyment, meaning, and calm while keeping your phone in your life

    Take 9 minutes to notice how you meet your needs for connection, consuming, and creating—your nervous system will thank you.

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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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    10 分
  • Ep. 246 How Constant Bad News Increases Anxiety and Stress in Midlife and a Coping Skill That Restores Calm

    Ep. 246 How Constant Bad News Increases Anxiety and Stress in Midlife and a Coping Skill That Restores Calm
    2026/03/16

    Have you noticed that anxiety about the future can spike even when your day-to-day life is actually okay?
    You deserve a more fulfilling and calmer way forward.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:
    1. Why your nervous system can stay on high alert even when nothing immediate is wrong in your life
    2. How online environments amplify intensity and repetition, quietly shaping anxiety and stress in midlife
    3. How understanding collective illusions and nervous-system science can become a powerful coping skill for restoring calm
    Take 11 minutes to notice how your body feels after being online versus after real-world interaction—this awareness is where calm begins.

    Send 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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    11 分
  • Ep. 245 The Coping Skill That Works Better Than Stress Eating to Ease Anxiety and Stress in Midlife

    Ep. 245 The Coping Skill That Works Better Than Stress Eating to Ease Anxiety and Stress in Midlife
    2026/03/12

    What if learning to relax is the missing step in changing stress eating in midlife?
    If you’ve tried to stop stress eating by using willpower or discipline, you’re not alone — and there’s a more supportive way forward.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:
    1. Why stress eating often shows up when your body doesn’t yet know how to relax
    2. How learning to listen to your body helps reduce anxiety and stress without relying on food
    3. Gentle, science-backed coping skills that make relaxation feel safer and more accessible in midlife
    Take 10 minutes to explore how relaxation — not restriction — can change your relationship with stress eating. You’re worth it.

    Send 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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    11 分
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