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Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

De : MJ Murray Vachon LCSW
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Coping Skills for Midlife Stress and Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Forget the midlife crisis—how about creating midlife calm? The anxiety and stress of this life stage can drain your energy, fuel overthinking, and make it hard to enjoy what should be the best years of your life. This podcast offers practical coping skills to help you reduce anxiety, manage stress, and rediscover a calmer, more confident version of yourself.

In Creating Midlife Calm, you’ll discover how to:

  • Be happier, more present, and more effective at home and work.
  • Transform stress and anxiety into powerful tools that boost your clarity, energy, and confidence.
  • Cultivate calm and joy through practical, affordable coping skills that help you handle life’s daily challenges.

Join MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, a seasoned therapist with over 50,000 hours of clinical experience and 32 years teaching mental wellness, as she guides you to reclaim your inner calm. Learn to stay grounded in the present, navigate midlife transitions with clarity, and build emotional resilience using proven coping tools.

Every Monday, MJ dives into real stories and science-backed insights to help you shift from anxious to centered—ending each episode with an “Inner Challenge” you can practice right away. Then, on Thursdays, she shares a brief follow-up episode that connects, deepens, or expands the week’s topic, helping you apply these skills in real life.

Let’s evolve from crisis to calm—and make midlife your most balanced and fulfilling chapter yet.
🎧 Start with listener favorite Ep. 138 to feel the difference calm can make.

© 2026 Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Hygiène et vie saine Psychologie Psychologie et psychiatrie
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  • Ep. 243 How To FINALLY Feel Relaxed Again in Midlife, As Anxiety and Stress Take Over

    Ep. 243 How To FINALLY Feel Relaxed Again in Midlife, As Anxiety and Stress Take Over
    Mar 5 2026

    What if relaxing at night feels hard because your body never had a chance to slow down during the day?
    If this sounds familiar, you’re not doing anything wrong — your nervous system just needs a different kind of support.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:
    1. Why trying to relax on command often backfires when anxiety and stress have created ongoing urgency
    2. How reducing urgency while you’re still busy helps your nervous system feel safer and less exhausted
    3. Simple, realistic coping skills you can use throughout the day to make rest and relaxation more accessible at night
    Take 9 minutes to learn how easing urgency during the day can help your body relax again — you’re worth it.

    Send a text




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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.

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    10 min
  • Ep. 242 Why Your Midlife Busyness Is Hiding Your Stress & Anxiety

    Ep. 242 Why Your Midlife Busyness Is Hiding Your Stress & Anxiety
    Mar 2 2026

    What if the reason you stay busy isn’t because life is demanding but because slowing down feels unsettling?
    If this resonates, you’re not broken — and there is a constructive, meaningful way forward.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:
    1. How anxiety and stress often masquerade as productivity and constant motion in midlife
    2. Why busyness can feel regulating to your nervous system even when it quietly drains you
    3. How simple awareness of your relationship with activity becomes a powerful coping skill that restores calm
    Take 10 minutes to understand why slowing down feels hard and begin retraining your nervous system for real rest — you’re worth it.

    Send a text




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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.

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    10 min
  • Ep. 241 When Work Demands Too Much You Can Finding Relief Through Coping Skills for Midlife Stress and Anxiety

    Ep. 241 When Work Demands Too Much You Can Finding Relief Through Coping Skills for Midlife Stress and Anxiety
    Feb 26 2026

    Do you feel exhausted by work even though you may still like your job?
    If your energy is gone and anxiety is rising, it may not be a motivation problem—it may be a capacity problem.
    In this episode, you’ll discover:

    1. Why chronic over-demand and constant availability keep your nervous system stuck in stress and anxiety
    2. How invisible multitasking quietly drains energy and what to change to protect your nervous system
    3. How using facts instead of emotions with leadership can reduce anxiety and restore steadiness at work

    Take 13 minutes to protect your energy and calm midlife stress and anxiety—you’re worth it.

    Send a text




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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.

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    13 min
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