Ep. 111 3 Midlife Coping Skills for Family Stress During the Holidays

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

Do family gatherings sometimes leave you feeling hurt or upset? Wondering how to keep the holidays joyful while handling tricky dynamics?

The holiday season often brings people together, but it can also resurface old family dynamics and lead to hurtful interactions.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. The key difference between hurtful and toxic behavior and why it matters.

1. Learn three essential coping skills to handle hurtful comments and actions without escalating conflict.
2. Understand how intergenerational dynamics can influence family interactions and how to approach them with empathy.

Tune in now to master simple strategies for responding to hurtful moments and ensure your holiday gatherings stay merry and bright!

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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.