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.52 No-Cost Ways to Renewing Your Anxious & Weary Spirit in Midlife
Welcome to Season 3!!! One of the most underutilized tools in cultivating mental wellness is your spirit!It's with you from the minute you're born so why not figure out how to use it to feel better? …
Ep. 51 An Easy Way to Use Mindfulness to Decrease Everyday Anxiety!
August brings with it lots of new pressures! Yep! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ explores with a D1 Athlete how he grew into handling the pressure. Be it on the field of life or football…
Ep. 50 Creating a Foolproof Morning Routine to Reduce Stress & Anxiety, Boost Productivity, and Improve Wellbeing!
As we say good-by to another summer we find ourselves once again facing the dreaded
MORNING ROUTINE! Listen as MJ and her guest dive into the latest science that helps us get up and go each and every…
Ep. 49 Coping Skills to Reduce Midlife Stress & Anxiety in Parenting Adult Children
In this episode, MJ and her guest explore the theme 'How do I stay sane when my adult children are distressed?' Join the unscripted conversation between the host and a mother in her mid-life who gra…
Ep. 48 Coping Skills to Reduce the Stress, Anxiety & Low Self-Self Esteem Caused by Comparison
In this live coaching session, MJ works with a college student who is courageous enough to battle comparison head on! Is comparison really a thief of joy or is it just a human reaction that we can a…
Ep. 47 Coping Skills For Emotional Healing That Decrease Stress & Anxiety in Loss & Grief
Grief and Loss, while being a natural part of life, brings most of us face to face with many new and often uncomfortable feelings, situations and relationships. Grief not faced or processed easily di…
Ep. 46 Coping Skills to Reduce Procrastination Decrease Stress & Anxiety & Get Sh*t Done!
Don't put off listening to this episode on Procrastination! In this episode, a podcast listener takes on the role of guest to explore his problem with procrastination! You may be surprised (and relie…
Ep. 45 : Practical Coping Skills for Midlife Weight Loss That Work & Decrease Stress & Anxiety
I want to lose weight! I have tried everything!I think about it daily! When I look at all the various diets they all are too much work, too expensive or too confusing. Today's guest is one of the few…
Ep. 44 Coping Skills To Ease The Stress & Anxiety of Family Caregiving
The very essence of family revolves around caregiving. Yet, amidst the chaotic demands of work and our daily lives, we often find ourselves struggling to provide the heartfelt care to those we love …
Ep.43 : Coping Skills To Reduce the Stress & Anxiety of Adulting
On today’s episode, MJ and her guest take on the topic of Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! As children we are given the impression that becoming an adult is an on/off switch. Something that automatical…
Ep.42 Legally Blonde: Coping Skills to Reduce Anxiety & Stress When Returning to School In Midlife
This is a delightful episode! Join MJ as she wraps up her series on Ages & Stages with a guest who went back to law school in her 50's!! What kind of Ager are you? Hopefully an Engager! Not sure wha…
Ep.41 Ages & Stages: Young Adulthood to Old Age
Listen as MJ shares the GPS from young adulthood to old age. This episode starts where Ep. 38 left off, giving accessible and vital information to help you navigate each life stage with more ease. …
Ep. 40 Who Am I? External Self-Awareness (Part 2)
Listen as last week's guest takes on a topic he had not anticipated-- external self-awareness. In this episode, MJ helps guide this young man with how to take feedback from others so he can answer t…
Ep.39 Who Am I? Internal Self-Awareness (Part 1)
What Disney Princess are You? Is your Myers-Briggs type ENFJ or ISTP? Maybe your top two E-Colors are yellow/red. What number are you on the Enneagram? Yes, personality inventories are a fun and help…
Ep. 38 Who Am I? Ages & Stages
Want a GPS for your life?? Listen to this podcast series, as MJ shares with you information about human development: Ages & Stages? Whether you are 1, 13, 25, 30, 60 or 80 years old you will learn t…
Ep. 37 A Simple Zero Cost Midlife Coping Skill To Decrease Stress & Anxiety
In this episode, MJ speaks with a listener who tried out the two mindfulness exercises, Notice On The Inside and Notice On The Outside. Mindfulness is often presented in a way that makes it seem wo…
Ep. 36 What is a Inner Workout? (Notice)
Let's Get Practical! Practical! Practical! If you sing this to the tune of Let's Get Physical you are singing my song! No fancy gyms, no expensive work out clothes are needed to up your Mental Wellne…
Ep.35 Coping Skills For New Parents When Bringing Baby Home: Attachment & Attunement (Part 2)
Have you taken an attachment quiz-- one of the latest fads on the internet? Maybe you read an article or heard attachment talked about on the news. Today's episode picks up where last week's left of…
Ep. 34 Coping Skills For New Parents When Bringing Baby Home: Attachment & Attunement (Part 1)(Part 1)
There are few things in life that change how we answer the question, Who Am I? then becoming a parent. While timing and circumstances are unique to each of us, as the due date gets closer, all of …
Ep. 33: Coping Skills That One Man Used to Loose 120 lbs That Increased His Happiness & Decreased His Stress & Anxiety
I want to lose weight! I have tried everything!I think about it daily! When I look at all the various diets they all are too much work, too expensive or too confusing. Today's guest is one of the few…