Ep. 167 Anxious About Aging in Midlife and 3 Coping Skills to Reset Your Mindset

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

Are you worried that aging in midlife means becoming less relevant, less energetic, or less you?
You don’t have to accept that mindset—this episode gives you the tools to reshape it.
In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. How to identify and challenge the negative beliefs midlife can quietly plant in your mind
2. Why your emotional, social, and mental habits matter just as much as your physical ones when it comes to aging well
3. Three science-backed coping skills to help you stay connected, mentally clear, and open to growth—no matter your age

Press play to reset how you think about aging and start designing your next chapter with purpose

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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.