Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 225 6 Minutes to a More Abundant New Year: Transform Resolutions to Ease Midlife Anxiety & Stress
Does the pressure to “get it right” in 2026 already have your anxiety rising?
If you’re in midlife, January often brings more stress than calm—and it’s time for a different way forward.
1. Learn why typical resolutions often fail and fuel anxiety, especially in midlife
2. Understand the difference between the “good life” and the “abundant life”—and why it matters now
3. Discover how to root your goals, resolutions and coping skills in compassion and calm, not pressure and performance
If you’re ready to approach the new year with less stress and more self-trust, this episode is your starting point.
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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.