Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 220 Why Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Overwhelm in Midlife Brings More Calm To Your Holidays
Do the holidays feel heavier because you’re carrying stress, anxiety, and overwhelm you barely had room for in the first place?
You’re not alone if this season amplifies everything your midlife brain is already managing.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. The real difference between stress, anxiety, and overwhelm—and why holiday pressure intensifies all three
2. What happens in your midlife brain and body when you’ve quietly exceeded capacity
3. How understanding overwhelm helps you reclaim clarity and calm without adding anything to your plate
Take 9 minutes to bring more calm to your holidays—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.