Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 245 The Coping Skill That Works Better Than Stress Eating to Ease Anxiety and Stress in Midlife
What if learning to relax is the missing step in changing stress eating in midlife?
If you’ve tried to stop stress eating by using willpower or discipline, you’re not alone — and there’s a more supportive way forward.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why stress eating often shows up when your body doesn’t yet know how to relax
2. How learning to listen to your body helps reduce anxiety and stress without relying on food
3. Gentle, science-backed coping skills that make relaxation feel safer and more accessible in midlife
Take 10 minutes to explore how relaxation — not restriction — can change your relationship with stress eating. 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.