Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 203 — Why "Pushing Through" Midlife Anxiety Backfires and Coping Skills To Regain Energy & Calm
Do you pride yourself on powering through—but secretly feel drained and resentful?
Pushing through anxiety and stress feels like the only option in midlife, but the truth is it often backfires.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why pushing through actually keeps the stress cycle open and makes anxiety worse
2. The hidden costs of the “push-through mode” in midlife
3. How to use RESET coping skills to calm anxiety, conserve energy, and reconnect with what matters
Take 13 minutes to stop burning out and start building 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.