Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 238 Why Meditation Feels So Hard For Anxious Midlife Minds and the Coping Skill That Makes It Possible (Part 1)
Why does meditation feel so frustrating when you’re already anxious and overwhelmed in midlife?
If you’ve tried meditation and quit—more than once—you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why anxious midlife minds resist traditional meditation—and how understanding this reduces self-blame
2. How a simple, compassionate coping skill can calm anxiety without forcing your mind to be quiet
3. Why learning to “sit” with your mind differently can gradually retrain your nervous system and restore calm
Take 16 minutes to relate to your mind with more compassion and ease—you’re worth it.
Phyllis Coletta, JD
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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.