Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 84 3 Effective Strategies to Overcome Family Disagreements & Stress when Navigating Your Child's Mental, Social, Intellectual and Physical Differences
Ep. 84 3 Effective Strategies to Overcome Family Disagreements when Navigating Your Child's Mental, Social, Intellectual and Physical Differences
Do family disagreements over your child's needs feel overwhelming? When you're not aligned with your co-parent or child on how to handle mental, social, learning, or physical differences, finding peace can seem impossible.
This episode is designed to help you manage these tough family moments by giving you practical steps to lower the tension and move forward—together. If you've ever felt stuck, frustrated, or unsure how to bring everyone to the same page, you're not alone. The tools in this episode can help you create calm in your home and guide your child more effectively.
In this episode you'll learn:
1. A proven three-step process to navigate family disagreements with empathy and understanding.
2. How to use curiosity as a powerful tool to build deeper family connections.
3. Techniques to ensure everyone has the time and space they need to get aligned and move forward as a team.
Press play now to discover how you can turn family conflict into an opportunity for growth, understanding, and unity.
Check out Ep. 83 Mastering the Seven-Stage Path: Reducing Anxiety and Boosting Strategies for Families Navigating a Child’s Physical, Mental Learning or Social Challenges.
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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.