Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 217 3 Midlife Coping Skills to Instantly Calm Anxiety, Ease Stress, and Find Balance Fast This Holiday Season
Do you ever feel like you’re either doing everything—or nothing at all—because stress and anxiety keep hijacking your balance?
Midlife often pulls you between over-functioning and under-functioning, but your nervous system holds the key to calm.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How to engage your vagus nerve—your body’s built-in calm system—to regulate anxiety and stress.
2. Three easy-to-use coping skills to help you restore steadiness in minutes.
3. How to practice equanimity, the emotional balance that lets you stay grounded no matter what life throws your way.
Take 10 minutes to slow down, reset your body, and find your calmest midlife self — 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.