Ep. 152 Midlife Caregiving's Invisible Weight & Coping Skills to Ease the Burden & Anxiety

Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

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Feeling mentally drained by caring for both your kids and aging parents?
You might be carrying an invisible load that’s fueling your anxiety—and it’s more common than you think.
In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. 3 transformative coping skills to ease the mental weight of caregiving.

2. How to identify what’s your responsibility and what isn’t to decrease

overwhelm.

3. Why updating your expectations is essential for emotional clarity and peace

Give yourself permission to breathe again—tune in now and lighten your invisible load.

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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.