Ep. 96 Daily Boosts to Decrease Election Anxiety and Increase Midlife Calm Now

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

Want your election anxiety to decrease? Try carving a 🎃 pumpkin or sorting your socks.
In this episode, we follow up on Monday’s Inner Challenge, where we discussed how to manage election anxiety. Today, MJ introduces the Daily Boost, a simple but powerful strategy to lower your stress and boost your mood during these intense times.
In this episode you'll learn:

1. Why doom scrolling feeds your anxiety and how to stop.

2. The science behind the Daily Boost and why small, intentional actions can make a big impact.

3. Practical examples of daily boosts you can do, like carving a pumpkin, cleaning a junk drawer, or walking around Target.

Ready to feel less anxious and more in control? Start practicing a daily boost today. Track your progress, get a friend involved, and remember – it’s all about making small, manageable steps toward a calmer mind.

Check out Ep.62 Mental Wellness: Coping Skills for Managing the Anxiety of TikTok Addiction!

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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.