Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 99 How Transforming Shoulds Can Instantly Decrease Stress & Anxiety To Boost Midlife Calm
Feeling burdened by expectations? In this episode of Creating Midlife Calm, MJ Murray Vachon LCSW, dives into how the "shoulds" in your life can impact your spirit, both positively and negatively. Using her simple S.O.S. process, you'll discover how to turn oppressive shoulds into empowering coulds, helping you feel more connected to your inner calm and less anxious.
In this episode, you'll learn:
1. What "shoulds" are and the role they play in your life.
2. The S.O.S. process for assessing your shoulds and transforming them into possibilities.
3. How to reconnect with your spirit to make decisions that lift you up rather than drag you down.
If you're ready to stop letting shoulds control your life and start living with more calm and clarity, this episode is for you.
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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.