Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships
Forget the midlife crisis—how about creating midlife calm? The stress and anxiety of this life stage can be overwhelming, draining your energy, and making it hard to enjoy what should be the best years of your life. This podcast is your guide to easing midlife anxiety and discovering a deeper sense of calm.
Discover how to:
- Be happier, more present, and more effective at home and work.
- Transform stress and anxiety into powerful tools that ignite your inner energy, helping you gain clarity and confidently meet your needs.
- Cultivate calm and enjoyment by creating a positive internal mindset using practical, affordable coping skills to handle life's challenges.
Join MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, a seasoned therapist with over 48,000 hours of therapy sessions and 31 years’ experience as a mental wellness educator as she guides you on a journey to reclaim your inner peace. Learn how to find contentment in the present moment, empowering you to handle the pressures of midlife with a confidence clarity that leads to calm.
Every Monday, MJ delves into the unique challenges of midlife, offering insights and concluding each episode with an "Inner Challenge"—simple, science-backed techniques designed to shift you from feeling overwhelmed to centered. Tune in every Thursday for a brief 5-10 minute "Inner Challenge Tune-Up," where MJ offers easy-to-follow tips to integrate these practices into your daily life.
Let’s evolve from crisis to calm and embrace the incredible journey of midlife. Tired of feeling overwhelmed? Tune into fan-favorite Ep. 63 for a boost! Let anxiety go and embrace your calm!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 192
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep. 12: How Is Your Psychological Intelligence?
What the heck is Psychological Intelligence? It's the great connector. The skill set that helps us understand, feel heard and come to know others. Why have you not heard of this skill set? I have no …
Ep. 11: How's Your Social Intelligence?
Isn't it grand that Social Intelligence has nothing to do with how many likes or friends you have on social media? Are you one of the many people trying to figure out how to increase human connection…
Ep. 10: Are You Letting Your Phone Run Your Life?
What's your superpower? If it's managing your phone, skip this episode. If you're like most of us this little bit of tech wizardry is managing you more than you're managing it. Skip the dismal statis…
Ep. 9: How's Your Sleep?
Sleep: The New Skill Set. This how a former client of mine categorized sleep after he went from 5.5 hours a night to 7.5 hours a night. He begged me to teach people the value of what he called a new …
Ep. 8: How's Your NESTS?
Self-Care...Blah, Blah, Blah. We hear about it all the time and most of the time it just makes us feel we are not beautiful enough, skinny enough, rippled enough, organic enough or just plain-- enoug…
Ep. 7: Are Your Emotions Potty Trained? (Part 2)
Well...are they? In this episode, MJ basically offers you the M & M's method of managing emotions. MJ asks you to observe if you use an external mindset or an internal mindset when something triggers…
Ep. 6: Are Your Emotions Potty Trained? (Part 1)
Listen to find out how potty training and emotional regulation have more in common than you might think. Managing our emotions is probably the most underrated skill since the beginning of time. In P…
Ep. 5: How Do You Train Your Brain and Tend Your Mind?
One of the biggest shocks for many people is that Mental Wellness is an inside job. So often we feel that if things went our way we would be happy, peaceful and calm. To some degree this is true, b…
Ep. 4: Who Am I? Part 2
Picking up where we left off on episode #3, we continue to look at how we answer the question, Who Am I? using Dr. Erik Erikson's psychosocial model of human development. This episode focuses on ad…
Ep. 3: Who Am I? Part 1
From the beginning of time humans have been on the journey of answering the question Who Am I? As we reflect on mental wellness and self-growth we often hear the word authenticity. How does one be…
Ep. 2: What is an Inner Workout?
Your Mental Gym is right between your ears! This podcast will help you begin to NOTICE your own unique reactions and teach you two super easy inner workouts that help improve mental wellness. These…
Ep. 1: What is Mental Wellness?
Most of us know more about Mental Illness than Mental Wellness. No wonder it's so easy to feel like crap. Join MJ Murray Vachon LCSW as she strives to take the mystery out of mental wellness. In thi…