Ep. 180 – How to Match the Right Coping Skill to Stress vs. Anxiety in Midlife So You Feel Better Now

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

Are you using the wrong coping skill for what you’re actually feeling?
Stress and anxiety may look similar on the outside—but they need very different responses to truly feel better.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. How to tell whether you’re feeling stress or anxiety in real-time
2. Why using the WRONG coping skill won't work for stress / anxiety
3. A simple guide to matching the right coping skill to each emotion—so you stop spinning and start feeling calm

🎧 Tune in to learn how to move from avoidance to awareness and feel more grounded in midlife.

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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.