Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 207 Death as a Teacher: How Thinking About Mortality Strengthens Midlife Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety
What if thinking about death could actually teach you how to live with more peace, presence, and perspective?
You don’t have to explore this alone.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why practicing small acts of letting go builds resilience for life’s biggest transitions.
- How the body “knows how to die” and what that means for reducing fear and blame.
- A simple yoga pose that can shift how you approach mortality and daily anxiety adding meaning and clarity to your life.
Take 20 minutes to practice letting go and discover new calm in midlife—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.