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. 72 Mental Wellness & Hedy Schleifer on How To Create A Healthy Marriage! (Part 1)
In this episode MJ is excited to share her conversation with Hedy Schleifer, an internally renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker. Hedy discusses her work on Encountered Centered Tran…
Ep.71 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills & Fun Ways to Improve Family Relationships That Decrease Stress & Anxiety
It isn't hard to hear about bad news, but in many neighborhoods, there is good news to share! In this podcast episode, MJ presents inspiring everyday wins that uplift our mental wellness and add unex…
Ep. 70 Mental Wellness: Quick & Effective Coping Skills for Parenting A Child Who is Stressed & Anxious
Join MJ and her guest, a mother of two, as they delve into the challenges of parenting amidst anxiety, emphasizing the development of emotional intelligence. The differing experiences of anxiety in …
Ep. 69 A Tribute to Jay Caponigro: One Year Later ( Mental Wellness & Cancer)
Join MJ as she pays tribute to Jay Caponigro, an ordinary guy who did some extraordinary things with his one life. In this encore, Jay and his wife Lyn share their journey through cancer. In their hu…
Ep. 68 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills for Retirement: Releasing Stress & Anxiety and Embracing Personal Growth
Join MJ and her guest as they discuss retirement, mental wellness, and embracing life's next chapters with openness and adaptability. In this episode MJ, shares insights about filming the Inner Chall…
Ep. 67 Mental Wellness: Training the Midlife Brain: Coping Skills to Release Stress & Anxiety and Enhance Emotional Wellbeing
Join MJ as she announces a new partnership with Michael Joseph McDonald creating MasterClass: Mental Wellness our Inner Challenge! While MJ is in the studio filming she revisits an encore episode on…
Ep.66 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills for Managing Stress & Anxiety When Leaving a Narcissist in Midlife
This may be MJ’s favorite episode! Join MJ as she talks with a remarkable woman who shares her journey of leaving a manipulative and narcissistic spouse. Despite her successful career in tech and mu…
Ep. 65 Coping Skills to increase Relational & Social Intelligence To Decrease Midlife Anxiety & Stress
In this episode, MJ shares her the theory of social and relational intelligence as well as an awesome one pager! We all know that relationships are key to cultivating mental wellness but so often r…
Ep. 64 Coping Skills for the Stay-at-Home Parenting Journey To Decrease Anxiety & Stress
Join MJ and her guest as they embark on a captivating journey into the realm of stay-at-home parenting. Witnessing a notable 10% surge from 2022 to 2023, more parents have chosen to transition from …
Ep. 63 Mental Wellness & Love Beyond Travis,Taylor & Valentine's Day!
Get ready to dive into a captivating conversation that goes beyond the usual chatter about Taylor, Travis, and Valentine's Day! MJ and special guest Elly Wynia LCSW, a seasoned relationship expert,(h…
Ep.62 Coping Skills for Managing the Stress & Anxiety of TikTok Addiction!
Join MJ on a six-month journey with her guest, who initiates a self-imposed TikTok Block. Initially struggling with phone overuse, especially on TikTok, the guest deletes the app and shares valuable …
Ep. 61 Specific Coping Skills for & Losing Weight Your Way in Young Adulthood, Midlife & the Golden Years That Help Decrease Stress & Anxeity
Happy New Year! In this episode, MJ talks with personal trainer and weight loss coach, Julie Hamilton, about abandoning the quest for the perfect diet and instead focusing on what works for you. They…
Ep. 60 Life's Wisdom and Coping Skills for Kids from 1-93 (Encore)
Learning from Age: Wisdom and Insights on Mental Wellbeing
How are your New Year's Resolutions going??? Hope to lose some weight? Do a bit more exercise? Maybe less phone time or more sleep. All usefu…
Ep. 59 My favorite Coping Skills To Decrease Stress & Anxiety In 2023!!
Ep. 53 Mental Wellness & 2023
In this final episode of 2023, MJ looks back on the year and shares her favorite Inner Challenge Insights from this years’ episodes. She celebrates her People of the Yea…
Ep. 58 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills for Family Holidays: Reducing Stress & Anxiety and Avoiding the Grinch Effect!!
Ep. 57 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills for Improving Family Relationships During a Child’s Illness That Decrease Stress & Anxiety
It's the season of turkey, cranberries (who eats these??) and THANKS! Join MJ and her guest, best selling author and wellness innovator David Romanelli, as they gather around the table and talk gr…
Ep. 56 Mental Wellness: The Science of Compassion as a Coping Skill for Improving Relationships & Decreasing Stress & Anxiety
Join MJ as she talks with her husband Dr. Dominic Vachon. No, they aren't talking about wash,(which he excels at) or raising kids but COMPASSION! As Director of Notre Dame's, Ruth Hildebrand Cente…
Ep. 55 Midlife Exercise: Building Confidence and Getting Off the Couch To Decrease Stress, Anxiety, Weight
Are you a couch potato? A Sofa Spud? Does your critical voice constantly call you lazy? Do you plan on working out but don’t follow through? This is the episode for you!!!! We all know the stats: w…
Ep. 54 Coping Skills to Manage Stress, Anxiety & Other Difficult Emotions in Midlife: Taming and Aiming (Part 2)
Want to feel better? Get better at feeling!!! In this episode MJ and her guest dive into the model MJ has created to manage feelings in a more direct and healthy way. Most of us are taught to use an …
Ep. 53 Coping Skills to Manage Stress, Anxiety & Other Difficult Emotions in Midlife: Naming (Part 1)
Stop Trying to Feel Better and Get Better at Feeling? This pithy statement, credited to Whitney Johnson, sums up this episode. Did you know the average feeling moves through us in 90 seconds? EXCEPT,…