Ep. 156 A Midlife Couple Shares Their Journey With Pancreatic Cancer, Stress, Anxiety, and Coping Skills

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

What if the way you respond to crisis could reshape your anxiety—and your relationships?
This powerful episode reveals how one midlife couple used emotional presence, humor, and grounded coping skills to face a devastating cancer diagnosis.

Discover:

1. Coping skills that hold both grief and joy in times of deep uncertainty

2. Why emotional honesty—not toughness—relieves midlife anxiety during crisis

3. How community, faith, and presence redefine mental wellness in the face of cancer

Listen now to discover how midlife anxiety shifts when you stop fighting and start dancing through 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.