Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 237 When Love Feels Hard in Midlife Try This Coping Skill to Calm Anxiety and Stress
Why does love sometimes feel harder in midlife—even when you care deeply and want connection?
If relationships feel more complicated than you expected, you’re not failing—you’re encountering the real work of love.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why anxiety and stress often rise when relationships move into disharmony—and why that’s normal in midlife
- How learning to stay present through discomfort becomes a powerful coping skill for connection
- Why love grows through repair, not perfection, and how that understanding can calm stress and deepen intimacy
🎧 Take 12 minutes to learn the coping skill that helps you move through disharmony and build real connection—right where you are—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.