Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 216 Why Midlife Stress and Anxiety Push You to Over-Function or Shut Down
Are you constantly doing too much—or pulling back because you feel too drained to care?
These midlife stress patterns are your body’s natural way of managing anxiety, not personal flaws.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. What it truly means to over-function or under-function when anxiety and stress take over.
2. Why these patterns are nervous-system responses—not fixed personality traits.
3. How to recognize your own pattern so you can begin moving toward emotional balance and calm.
Take 9 minutes to understand your stress patterns and find your first step back to calm—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.