Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 223 The Incredible 2-Minute Christmas Gift That Will Ease Your Anxiety, Stress, and Midlife Loneliness
What if Christmas didn’t have to feel like something happening to you create and enjoy?
You’re not alone if this holiday brings complicated feelings, stress, or midlife anxiety.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How a single word can bring you back into agency and calm on a day that often feels overwhelming
- Why a mental “movie” helps anchor your body and nervous system to reduce stress and make you feel calm this Christmas.
Take 2 minutes to feel more grounded and connected—you’re worth it. Merry Christmas and a Calm New Year!
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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.