Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 240 2 Effective Coping Skills to Ease Stress and Anxiety Around Career Disappointment in Midlife
Does your career feel disappointing in midlife—and leave you questioning your worth?
You’re not alone, and this quiet kind of stress is far more common than people admit.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why career disappointment in midlife often turns into anxiety, stress, and self-doubt—even when nothing is “wrong” on the surface
2. How internalizing or constantly venting about work both keep your nervous system stuck
3. Why naming the truth about your job—without fixing or quitting—can restore steadiness and self-worth
Take 12 minutes to understand your career disappointment and calm anxiety—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.