EMERGENCY EPISODE: From Shock to Steady Ground — Coping Skills to Calm Anxiety & Stress After a School Shooting

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

How do you begin to feel safe and steady again after experiencing a shooting?

You don’t have to have all the answers, and you don’t have to go through this alone.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. The most important steps to protect your safety, body, and mind in the first days after a shooting
2. How to gently reintroduce routine and emotional regulation in the following week
3. Grounding practices and therapy options that can help you heal from the inside out

🎧 Take 10 minutes to protect your mental health and begin your healing—you’re worth it.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – Call or text 988
• National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center – nmvvrc.org
• SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline – Call or text 1-800-985-5990
• EMDRIA Find a Therapist – emdria.org/find-a-therapist
• One-page guide from Episodes 6, 7, and 97 – Name, Tame, and Aim(request (request by email: [email protected])
• MP3 grounding guides – Box Breathing and Two-Minute Cricket Reset (request by email: [email protected])

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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.