Ep. 70 Mental Wellness: Quick & Easy Coping Skills for Parenting an Anxious Child!
05/11/24 • 45 min
Join MJ and her guest, a mother of two, as they delve into the challenges of parenting amidst anxiety, emphasizing the development of emotional intelligence. The differing experiences of anxiety in this mother's two children illustrate the diverse emotional landscapes parents must traverse. MJ shares her model of emotional regulation, which encourages using an Internal Mindset to Tend and Befriend our emotional reactions. This practical strategy is easy to comprehend for both children and parents. The episode also draws on the genius of Elaine Aron and Dr. Becky Kennedy’s work, which focuses on Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and Deeply Feeling Kids (DFK). You'll love this conversation, which focuses on real-life dilemmas such as coping with technology-induced frustration and school-related anxiety, offering insights into identifying, regulating, and directing emotions towards constructive outcomes, fostering mental wellness within families. The episode culminates in emphasizing the pivotal role of emotional intelligence in parenting, presenting a holistic approach to nurturing resilience and empathy in the face of life's challenges. Check out the links for great resources!
Tend & Befriend Visual One Pager: https://mjmurrayvachon.com/podcast-7/
Elaine Aron: https://hsperson.com/
Dr, Becky Kennedy: https://www.goodinside.com/about/
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.
Join MJ and her guest, a mother of two, as they delve into the challenges of parenting amidst anxiety, emphasizing the development of emotional intelligence. The differing experiences of anxiety in this mother's two children illustrate the diverse emotional landscapes parents must traverse. MJ shares her model of emotional regulation, which encourages using an Internal Mindset to Tend and Befriend our emotional reactions. This practical strategy is easy to comprehend for both children and parents. The episode also draws on the genius of Elaine Aron and Dr. Becky Kennedy’s work, which focuses on Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and Deeply Feeling Kids (DFK). You'll love this conversation, which focuses on real-life dilemmas such as coping with technology-induced frustration and school-related anxiety, offering insights into identifying, regulating, and directing emotions towards constructive outcomes, fostering mental wellness within families. The episode culminates in emphasizing the pivotal role of emotional intelligence in parenting, presenting a holistic approach to nurturing resilience and empathy in the face of life's challenges. Check out the links for great resources!
Tend & Befriend Visual One Pager: https://mjmurrayvachon.com/podcast-7/
Elaine Aron: https://hsperson.com/
Dr, Becky Kennedy: https://www.goodinside.com/about/
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.
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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.
Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships - Ep. 70 Mental Wellness: Quick & Easy Coping Skills for Parenting an Anxious Child!
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Ep. 64 Mental Wellness & Parenting An Anxious Child!!
MJ Murray Vachon LCSW: [00:00:00] Welcome to the podcast. Anxiety poses one of the greatest challenges to mental wellness, especially in parenting. Unlike previous generations who often held onto the belief that everything will be okay, today's families grapple with anxiety on various fronts, be it concerned about their children's future, the daily choices such as school, extracurricular activiti
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