Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 236 How Your Attachment Style Influences Anxiety and Stress in Midlife Relationships
Why does Valentine’s Day bring up anxiety and stress in midlife—even when love is present?
If this week feels complicated, you’re not broken—your nervous system is responding to real relational patterns.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How attachment styles shape anxiety, stress, and emotional safety in relationships
2. Why love is one of the most powerful coping skills for calming anxiety and stress
3. How understanding your attachment patterns helps you give and receive love with more ease and agency
🎧 Take 13 minutes to understand your attachment patterns and build coping skills that support calm, connection, and self-trust—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.