Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 247 Why Cutting Back on Your Phone in Midlife Might Be the Wrong Coping Skill for Anxiety and Stress
Have you noticed that fighting your phone often leaves you feeling more anxious, tense, or deprived instead of calmer?
You deserve a more fulfilling way forward.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why trying to restrict phone use can backfire and increase anxiety and stress in midlife
- How your phone quietly meets ancient human needs for connection, consuming, and creating—and how those needs are met matters to your nervous system
- How small, more fulfilling real-world shifts can bring back enjoyment, meaning, and calm while keeping your phone in your life
Take 9 minutes to notice how you meet your needs for connection, consuming, and creating—your nervous system will thank you.
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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.