Ep. 109 5 Science-Backed Coping Skills To Conquer Holiday Shopping Anxiety & Find Calm

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

Is holiday shopping making you anxious and overwhelmed? Dive into this episode to discover how to replace shopping stress with peace and calm.

Shopping anxiety is a common challenge during the holiday season, stemming from tight budgets, perfectionism, or sensory overload in busy stores.

In this episode, you’ll discover

1. How to manage shopping stress through grounding techniques and smart scheduling.

2. The neuroscience behind decision fatigue and practical ways to outsmart it.

3. Creative approaches to gift-giving that prioritize connection over consumption.

Tune in now to gain actionable tools that will transform your holiday shopping into a more joyful and stress-free experience!

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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.