Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 243 How To FINALLY Feel Relaxed Again in Midlife, As Anxiety and Stress Take Over
What if relaxing at night feels hard because your body never had a chance to slow down during the day?
If this sounds familiar, you’re not doing anything wrong — your nervous system just needs a different kind of support.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why trying to relax on command often backfires when anxiety and stress have created ongoing urgency
2. How reducing urgency while you’re still busy helps your nervous system feel safer and less exhausted
3. Simple, realistic coping skills you can use throughout the day to make rest and relaxation more accessible at night
Take 9 minutes to learn how easing urgency during the day can help your body relax again — 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.