Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships
Ep. 142 The Hidden Anxiety of Midlife Overachievers and 3 Coping Skills to Finally Enjoy Your Success
Published: 24 March 2025 at 08:00 Europe/London
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Do you feel like you're constantly running, as if a boulder is chasing you downhill?
You can be successful and driven without the fear and exhaustion.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- What truly fuels your success—it’s not your anxiety.
- Learn how to update your self-image and move through life with less urgency and more ease.
- Reframe your daily mindset by shifting from "I have to" to "I get to"—a small change that makes a huge difference.
Listen now to overcome high-functioning anxiety and move through your days with calm, confidence, and ease.
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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.