Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships
Ep. 147 How Midlife Anxiety Is Driving Your Isolation & Loneliness & 2 Powerful Ways to Reconnect
Published: 10 April 2025 at 09:00 Europe/London
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Episode notes
Is your anxiety quietly fueling a sense of loneliness you can't quite name?
You may be crushing your to-do list but still feeling emotionally isolated or unseen, you’re not alone.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- How anxiety masks itself as busyness, numbing, and overthinking in midlife
- Why avoiding connection increases loneliness—and how to gently reverse it
- Two powerful (and doable) coping skills to build real, nourishing relationships
If you're ready to turn up the light in your own life, this episode is your next step. Tune in now.
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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.