Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 150 Coping Skills to Ease Stress & Anxiety When a Crisis Shakes Your Midlife Calm
What do you do when everything falls apart?
Shifting from a reactive to a reflective mindset can make all the difference.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. A step-by-step process to ground yourself during emotional shock using body-based coping skills
2. The “tend and befriend” mindset that helps you move through pain and anger with compassion
3. Real-life stories showing how vulnerability—not anger—builds lasting strength in midlife
Feeling like everything is crumbling?
Tune in now to learn how to hold yourself with care, calm, and clarity when life hits hardest.
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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.