Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 83 Mastering the Seven-Stage Path: Reducing Stress & Anxiety and Boosting Strategies for Families Navigating a Child's Physical, Mental, Learning, or Social Challenges.
Ep. 83 Mastering the Seven-Stage Path: Reducing Anxiety and Boosting Strategies for Families Navigating a Child's Physical, Mental, Learning, or Social Challenges
What happens when your child’s development takes an unexpected turn, and you suddenly realize their path is different from what you imagined?
Raising a child with physical, mental, learning, or social challenges can be emotionally overwhelming for any parent. This episode dives into the seven stages that parents experience, providing you with a roadmap to move from anxiety to understanding, while empowering you to better support your child.
In this episode you will:
1.Gain a deep understanding of the seven emotional and practical stages parents face when navigating a child’s differences.
2. Learn actionable strategies to reduce fear, embrace reality, and take confident steps toward finding the right support.
3. Discover how to stay emotionally resilient while guiding your child through life’s unique challenges.
Listen now to explore the seven-stage path and gain valuable tools to help your child thrive while easing your own anxiety.
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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.