Ep. 139 3 Essential Coping Skills to Break Free From Negative Thoughts and Calm Midlife Anxiety

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

Tired of feeling stuck in negative thoughts?

Your brain is wired to focus on the bad—but you don’t have to stay trapped in that cycle.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. The science behind negativity bias and how to use this four-step method to hack your mind so you can experience more joy, calm, and fulfillment.

2. How to retrain your brain to focus on the positive—without toxic positivity or ignoring reality.

3. How to redirect your mental energy toward meaningful, life-giving activities that bring you joy and fulfillment.

🎧 Listen now and uncover how small mental shifts can create lasting calm and help you break free from negativity bias!

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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.