Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 187 How This Simple 60-Second Coping Skill Eased One Listener’s Midlife Stress & How It'll Reduce Yours Too
Can imagining success actually reduce stress in midlife—or is that just wishful thinking?
You’re not the only one who doubts simple coping skills when stress feels overwhelming.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. A real-life listener’s story of using the “mental movie” coping skill to calm stress before a job interview
2. How running the mental movie three times helps ease resistance and create calm
3. Why imagining success in everyday tasks like getting to bed can break the anxiety cycle in midlife
Take 15 minutes to learn a coping skill that brings your stressed brain back online—you’re worth it.
Email me at mj@mjmurrayvachon.com for your free copy of The Mental Movie
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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.