Ep. 113 4 Coping Skills for Managing Anxiety and Grief in Midlife During the Holidays

Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Are the holidays bringing more heartache than joy this year? Discover practical ways to honor your grief and find moments of calm amidst your pain.

Holidays can be emotionally overwhelming, especially if you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or supporting someone through terminal illness.

In this episode you’ll discover:

1. How to tune into your inner voice and trust it to guide your unique grieving process.
2. Why doing less can actually bring a bit of peace during the holidays.
3. Meaningful ways to honor your loved one while still giving yourself
permission to rest and heal.

Listen to this episode to gain compassionate guidance and practical coping strategies that will help you move through the holidays with grace and authenticity.

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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.