Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 219 — Stop People-Pleasing: Coping Skills for Midlife Anxiety & Stress to Help You Set Boundaries and Stand in Your Authentic Self
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck saying yes when every part of you wants to say no?
People-pleasing may look helpful on the outside, but it fuels midlife anxiety and stress while leaving you disconnected from what you really want.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How to notice the wave of feelings that trigger people-pleasing.
- Why anchoring in your breath helps break the fawning cycle.
- How the FAWN steps—Feel, Anchor, Watch, Name—move you from automatic yes to standing strong.
Take 11 minutes to stop people-pleasing and start standing steady in your truthIn Appreciation of Episode 200! Join me for a free workshop:
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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.