Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 181 – 3 Midlife Coping Skills to Manage Back-to-School Stress & Anxiety Without Passing It On to Your Family
Are you dreading the back-to-school transition—and noticing it’s affecting your whole household?
Back-to-school doesn’t have to mean breakdowns. You can lead with calm instead of chaos.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
1. The value of naming your feelings about back-to-school.
2. How understanding the difference between stress and anxiety can help you get sh*t done.
3. Why your leadership matters—and how to guide your family through this transition with clarity and calm
Listen now to ease anxiety, model resilience, and build a household that’s steady even during stressful seasons. 🎧
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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.