DiscoverCreating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & RelationshipsEp. 221 What to Do When Holiday Overload Increases Your Midlife Anxiety and Stress & Easy Coping Skills That Work
Ep. 221 What to Do When Holiday Overload Increases Your Midlife Anxiety and Stress &  Easy Coping Skills That  Work

Ep. 221 What to Do When Holiday Overload Increases Your Midlife Anxiety and Stress & Easy Coping Skills That Work

Update: 2025-12-18
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Does the holiday season ever feel like a part-time job you’re paying to work?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1.     How to recognize when holiday expectations push your midlife brain into overwhelm

2.     The three  quick and free reset strategies that calm anxiety and stress quickly

3.     A simple way to reclaim your capacity without doing more

🎧 Take 7 minutes to move from frazzled to grounded—you're worth it.

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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.

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Ep. 221 What to Do When Holiday Overload Increases Your Midlife Anxiety and Stress &  Easy Coping Skills That  Work

Ep. 221 What to Do When Holiday Overload Increases Your Midlife Anxiety and Stress & Easy Coping Skills That Work

MJ Murray Vachon LCSW