Ep. 119 5-Minute Meditation to Ease Anxiety and Cultivate Compassion for LA Wildfires

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

Are you heart broken and overwhelmed by the wild fires in Los Angelos?
What if a simple five-minute meditation could help you transform those feelings into calm and compassion?
In this episode you’ll discover:

1. A simple guided, five-minute meditation to calm anxiety and re-regulate your nervous system when bad news feels overwhelming.
2. How to process difficult emotions like sadness and fear while creating space for inner peace.
3. How to cultivate compassion and connection by sending healing thoughts to those affected, all while grounding your own well-being.

Listen now to discover a simple and effective meditation that helps you navigate overwhelming emotions, bringing calm and connection when the world feels too heavy.

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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.