Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 201 How Taylor Swift’s “Life of a Showgirl” Interview Can Help Midlife Listeners Cope with Holiday Stress, Anxiety & Chaos
Can Taylor Swift’s approach to calm help you manage midlife stress and anxiety this holiday season? (OMG, is she really talking about holidays???)
You’re not alone — even the most grounded people feel the pull of pressure and expectation this time of year.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How Taylor Swift’s choice to protect her peace can inspire your own midlife coping skills.
2. Why setting intentions now helps reduce stress, anxiety, and overwhelm later in the season.
3. Simple, science-backed ways to trade pressure for presence and design the calm you crave.
Take 8 minutes to shift from holiday stress to midlife calm — you’re worth it.
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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.