Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships Ep. 6: Are Your Emotions Potty Trained? (Part 1)
Listen to find out how potty training and emotional regulation have more in common than you might think. Managing our emotions is probably the most underrated skill since the beginning of time. In Part 1, MJ gives some facts about feelings as well as the 8 basic emotions each of us should know in order to up our emotional intelligence. Go to https://mjmurrayvachon.com/one-pagers/ for a great one pager summarizing this episode. Remember if you don't potty train your emotions you'll end up in a lot of shit.
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.
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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.