Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 234 When Midlife Feels Like Chaos: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping Skills That Bring You Back to Calm
Why does midlife anxiety and stress spike the moment you feel out of control?
If overwhelm has been pulling you into fear, spiraling thoughts, or exhaustion, you’re not alone—and nothing is wrong with you.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why overwhelm in midlife is a nervous-system response—not a personal failure
2. What anxiety and stress are doing to your brain and body when you feel out of control
3. How understanding overwhelm becomes the first coping skill that helps you reconnect with calm
🎧 Take 11 minutes to understand your stress response and begin easing anxiety in midlife—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.