Ep. 192 Why Your Brain Makes Midlife Anxiety Worse—and 3 Coping Skills to Calm Stress

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

Have you ever acted on anxiety, only to find out later your brain got it wrong?
You’re not alone — your brain’s alarm system can misinform, and knowing how to respond changes everything.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. What your amygdala is and why it can trigger anxiety even when you’re safe

2. Three science-backed coping skills to calm your amygdala

3. How to shift from anxious reactions that cause mistakes to confident, clear-headed decisions

🎧 Take 13 minutes to learn how to calm your amygdala and choose your next step with confidence — 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.