Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 198 The Surprising Science Backed Coping Skill That Will Silence Your Inner Critic, Ease Midlife Anxiety & Calm Stress
Why do your efforts to silence your inner critic never seem to last?
You’re not alone—midlife anxiety and stress often thrive when criticism becomes a daily habit.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why calming your outer critic is the real key to quieting your inner critic
2. How midlife stress, anxiety, and overthinking are fueled by cultural patterns of criticism
3. The surprising science of what criticism does to your body—and the coping skill that rewires your brain in real time
Take 11 minutes to silence your critic, ease midlife anxiety, and lower stress—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.