Ep. 280 How Your Favorite Summer Activity Can Decrease Anxiety & Stress in Midlife

What if one small shift during your favorite summer activity could help decrease anxiety and stress?You're not alone if anxiety and stress leave you feeling narrowly focused and disconnected from the present moment.In this episode, you'll discover:How using your senses during a favorite summer activity can broaden your focus, create calm, and help decrease anxiety and stress in midlife.🎧 Take 2 minutes to engage your senses more fully and create a little more calm—you’re worth it.Send us Fan Mail****About the Host: MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, is a seasoned clinician, educator, and host of the podcast Creating Midlife Calm, recognized by Maria Shriver as a “Listen of the Week.” Over the past 40 years, MJ has led more than 50,000 therapy sessions and developed the Inner Challenge mental wellness program and the Inner Challenge Master Class, practical tools for emotional regulation, self-awareness, and resilience taught for more than 30 years in junior high schools and at the University of Notre Dame for freshman football players. Through her podcast, teaching, and coaching, MJ helps people build calmer lives, stronger relationships, and healthier communities.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.