Ep. 249 How to Calm Anxiety and Stress in Midlife When Your Overthinking

Why does anxiety in midlife make your mind spin even when thinking harder only increases the stress?
There is a practical and hopeful way to calm anxiety and stress that doesn’t require figuring everything out first.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why anxiety and stress in midlife pulls your attention into overthinking.
2. How practicing body awareness during ordinary moments prepares you to handle anxiety when stress bombs hit.
3. Three simple coping skills that help you return to your body so anxiety and stress in midlife can naturally settle
Take 12 minutes to learn how to calm anxiety and stress in midlife when you can’t stop thinking—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.