Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 211 Triggered? The 1 Powerful Coping Skill That Can Calm Midlife Stress and Anxiety Before It Takes Over
What if your biggest triggers are actually your best teachers?
You’re not broken—you’re human, and your nervous system is simply trying to protect you.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How to use a simple coping skill to move through triggers in real time
2. Why tending to your inner world (not controlling the outer one) is the real path to calm
3. How using this science-backed coping skill helps you become less triggered over time by rewiring old emotional patterns and strengthening self-trust
Take 10 minutes to retrain your brain, reduce anxiety, and rebuild self-trust—one trigger at a time. 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.