Ep. 135 5 Coping Skills for Midlife Parents to Reduce Anxiety, Strengthen Connection, and Navigate College Costs With Their Child

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

Feeling overwhelmed by the financial burden of college?
Navigating these tough conversations with your child without guilt, stress, or unnecessary conflict is not easy.

In this episode, you’ll discover

1. Five essential coping strategies to make informed, confident financial decisions while strengthening your relationship with your child.
2. How to engage your child in financial discussions—even if they’re resistant—and equip them with lifelong money management skills.
3. Ways to process difficult emotions like guilt and jealousy so they don’t cloud your decision-making.

Tune in now to gain clarity, confidence, and practical strategies for navigating the emotional and financial challenges of paying for college—without letting stress take over!
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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.