Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 231 The Real Obstacles to Midlife Exercise—and Coping Skills to Calm Anxiety, Reduce Stress, and Keep You Moving
Why does exercise feel harder in midlife—even when you know it matters?
You’re not failing or falling behind; your body and stress load have genuinely changed.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why midlife anxiety, stress, and self-comparison quietly derail exercise
2. How fatigue and shame create predictable obstacles that aren’t personal failures
3. Doable coping skills to help you keep moving without pressure or burnout
Take 15 minutes to reduce anxiety and stress around exercise and learn a calmer way to keep moving—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.