Ep. 195 Science-Backed Coping Skills Using the Comfort of Fall to Reduce Midlife Stress and Anxiety

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

Do you know how the natural comfort of Fall can be used as a science-backed way to calm anxiety?
You’re not alone—many in midlife overlook how the season itself can offer coping skills that reduce stress and restore resilience.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. How to add physical comfort in ways that calm your nervous system and reduce midlife stress
2. Simple but powerful psychospiritual coping skills for anxiety
3. How environmental and social comfort can strengthen calm and ease midlife anxiety in everyday life
Take 12 minutes to reduce stress and anxiety with four science-backed coping skills that lean into the comfort of Fall!

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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.