Ep. 228 A Calmer Approach to Midlife Weight Loss Using Coping Skills That Reduce Anxiety & Stress While You Lose Weight

Are you trying to lose weight in midlife without increasing anxiety, stress, or shame along the way?
You’re not alone—many capable, motivated midlife adults feel discouraged by approaches that rely on pressure, urgency, and self-criticism.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1.    How shifting away from pressure, urgency, and self-judgment toward a calmer, more supportive approach creates sustainable midlife weight loss

2.     Why anxiety and stress interfere with weight loss in midlife—and how nervous-system-friendly coping skills help your body cooperate instead of resist

3.     Practical coping skills that support weight loss while reducing overwhelm, burnout, and emotional exhaustion

🎧 Take 12 minutes to approach midlife weight loss with coping skills that reduce anxiety and stress—so change can finally last—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.