Ep. 120 3 Coping Skills To Decrease Overwhelm & Anxiety During The LA Wildfires & Mass Shootings

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

How do you navigate the overwhelming emotions that come with hearing bad news in today’s world?

Without the right tools to process these challenges, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, hopeless, or even numb.

In this episode you’ll discover:

1. A powerful three-step plan to process bad news while maintaining emotional balance.
2. Practical tips for limiting and balancing your news consumption to protect your mental health.
3. Inspiring ways to channel your energy into small acts of kindness, decreasing your anxiety and creating a positive ripple effect in your community.

Take charge of your emotional well-being and discover how to manage bad news with calm and compassion—press play now!

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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.