Ep. 72 Mental Wellness & Hedy Schleifer on Relationships! (Part 1)

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

In this episode MJ is excited to share her conversation with Hedy Schleifer, an internally renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker. Hedy discusses her work on Encountered Centered Transformation (ECT), emphasizing that peace begins with family and strong partnerships. She explains her distinctions between the individual and relational paradigms of mental wellness and shares insightful stories about overcoming survival patterns to achieve deep connections. The episode addresses the importance of tending to one’s own relationships, establishing meaningful connections, and transforming communication patterns within partnerships. Hedy’s joyful energy and wisdom provide a practical guide for creating a space of love and understanding in any relationship. This is a must-listen-to episode!
Website: https://hedyschleifer.com/
Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEaERAnIqsY
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.

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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.
About Inner Challenge:
Inner Challenge was created in 1995 as a summer camp for girls, and spent 20 years being tested and "refined" by junior high students who insisted on practical Mental Wellness skills that made them feel better. Inner Challenge has been used in many businesses, and community organizations. In 2017-2018 Inner Challenge was a class for freshman football players at the University of Notre Dame. It was these students who encouraged MJ to face her fear of technology and create a podcast. Inner Challenge will soon be a Master Class available for those who want to stop feeling like crap.

To connect with MJ Murray Vachon LCSW, learn more about the Inner Challenge or inquire about being a guest on the podcast visit mjmurrayvachon.com.
Creating Midlife Calm is a podcast designed to guide you through the challenges of midlife, tackling issues like anxiety, l...