Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 248 Why Trying To Get Clarity When You're Anxious Makes You Feel WORSE & Increases Stress During Midlife
Why does anxiety make you search for answers when the real problem may be the intensity moving through your nervous system?
There is a powerful shift that can help anxiety and stress settle without trying to think your way out of them.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why anxiety and stress in midlife push your brain to search for clarity.
- How emotional intensity temporarily shuts down your thinking brain and fuels rumination and overanalysis.
- Why learning to hold emotional intensity becomes one of the most powerful coping skills for managing anxiety and stress in midlife.
Take 10 minutes to understand why clarity isn’t the coping skill your anxiety and stress actually need—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.