Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 163 Why Your Stress & Anxiety About Midlife Isn’t a Crisis But A Sign You're Ready To Embark On Your Next Chapter
Have you ever felt the quiet anxiety of stepping into midlife without a roadmap or recognition?
This episode is your invisible graduation ceremony—honoring the transition no one prepared you for.
.Here’s what you’ll take away from this episode:
- Why anxiety in midlife is normal—and often a sign you’re being called into leadership.
- How to cultivate coping skills that are rooted in presence, not performance.
- The surprising power of quiet transitions and how they shape your influence and purpose.
Listen now to honor your own midlife graduation and step into the role you’ve been preparing for all along.
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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.