Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 251 When Family Relationships Hurt in Midlife and the Surprising Coping Skills That Reduce Stress and Increase Love
Why do family relationships hurt so much in midlife—and why does trying harder often increase stress instead of easing it?
If you’ve felt disappointment in family relationships, there is a calmer way to respond that can reduce stress and improve connection.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. Why family relationships in midlife can trigger powerful emotional reactions that quickly turn into anxiety and stress
2. A counterintuitive coping skill that helps you stop trying to change people and instead redirect your love and energy in healthier ways
3. How “rehoming love” can reduce stress, soften disappointment, and help your relationships—and your life—expand again
Take 10 minutes to learn a counterintuitive coping skill that can reduce stress and help love grow in midlife family relationships—you’re worth it.
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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.