Ep. 153 How Midlife Caregiving Triggers Stress, Anxiety & Identity Loss and Coping Skills to Ease the Ache

Are you quietly grieving while still showing up for everyone else?
Your kids need you differently, and your parent needs you more—everything inside can start to shift.

In this episode you’ll discover:

1. A deeper understanding of how anxiety and buziness in midlife often masks hidden grief of these profound relationship changes
2. Practical coping tools to manage emotional overwhelm and identity shifts
3. Language to name your experience and reconnect with your sense of self

If you’ve been carrying too much for too long, this episode will help you name the ache and soften the load.🎧 Listen now to reclaim clarity, calm, and a deeper connection to yourself in midlife.

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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.