Ep. 179 Is It Anxiety or Stress? The First Step to Choosing the Right Coping Skills in Midlife

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?
Understanding the difference between stress and anxiety can help you respond more effectively and feel calmer faster.
In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. How to recognize the difference between stress and anxiety in your body and mind
2. Why coping skills that help with stress can make anxiety worse—and vice versa
3. Two powerful questions that help you choose the right response in the moment

Listen now to begin matching your coping skills to what midlife actually demands from you—inside and out.

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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.