Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 242 Why Your Midlife Busyness Is Hiding Your Stress & Anxiety
What if the reason you stay busy isn’t because life is demanding but because slowing down feels unsettling?
If this resonates, you’re not broken — and there is a constructive, meaningful way forward.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How anxiety and stress often masquerade as productivity and constant motion in midlife
2. Why busyness can feel regulating to your nervous system even when it quietly drains you
3. How simple awareness of your relationship with activity becomes a powerful coping skill that restores calm
Take 10 minutes to understand why slowing down feels hard and begin retraining your nervous system for real rest — 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.