Ep. 222 A Surprising Coping Skill to Ease Holiday Anxiety, Stress, and Midlife Lonelines

Have the holidays ever made your loneliness feel heavier? 

You’re not alone—midlife anxiety and stress often peak the week before Christmas.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1.     Why loneliness intensifies during the holidays, especially in midlife

2.     How understanding the biology of loneliness softens your judgement helping you reduce loneliness. 

3.     A gentle coping skill that helps you feel more connected. 

🎧 Take 6 minutes to bring more calm and connection to your week—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.