Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 246 How Constant Bad News Increases Anxiety and Stress in Midlife and a Coping Skill That Restores Calm
Have you noticed that anxiety about the future can spike even when your day-to-day life is actually okay?
You deserve a more fulfilling and calmer way forward.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why your nervous system can stay on high alert even when nothing immediate is wrong in your life
2. How online environments amplify intensity and repetition, quietly shaping anxiety and stress in midlife
3. How understanding collective illusions and nervous-system science can become a powerful coping skill for restoring calm
Take 11 minutes to notice how your body feels after being online versus after real-world interaction—this awareness is where calm begins.
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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.