Ep. 164 What Every Graduate Should Hear From a Midlifer About Creating a Meaningful Life Without Letting Stress & Anxiety Hold You Back

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

Is someone you care about graduating yet feeling anxious, uncertain, or overwhelmed?
This episode offers the two questions that can guide them through early adulthood with clarity and calm.
Here’s what you’ll take away from this episode:

1. Why anxiety after graduation is not failure—but a normal part of becoming yourself
2. Two foundational questions to keep you grounded: Who am I? and Can I love?
3. Simple, powerful coping skills to stay present while you grow through uncertainty

Listen now to help the graduates you love feel seen, steady, and ready for the road ahead.

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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.