Ep. 110 Turn Holiday Shopping Into a Midlife Meditation & Coping Skill to Ease Anxiety

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

Are you someone who loves shopping but struggles with anxiety, especially during the holidays? What if you could turn shopping into “shopitation”, a mindfulness practice that actually helps decrease your anxiety and increase your calm? .

In this episode you’ll discover:

1. The definition and science behind “shopitation” and why shopping calms your anxiety.

2. How shopping can serve as a tool for mindfulness, offering emotional relief without spending a dime.

3. Avoid common mistakes like impulse buying and using shopping as an avoidance tool.

Tune in to today’s episode and discover the mindfulness practice of “shopitation.”Start practicing today and increase your calm.

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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.