Ep. 90 3 Coping Skills to Increase Your Happiness & Calm When You Hate Your Job

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

Do you find yourself constantly overthinking and dreading your job? What if you could use your whole brain to increase your happiness and calm—even in a work environment you hate?

If your job brings on negative thoughts, whether it's due to conflicts with coworkers, lack of direction, or just overall dissatisfaction, you’re not alone. In this episode, MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, explains why our brains are naturally wired to focus on the negative and how this affects our mood at work. But there’s a solution: retraining your brain to find calm and happiness, no matter how frustrating the situation.
In this episode you’ll:

1. Learn why your brain is programmed to dwell on negativity and how you can break free from this cycle.

2. Discover three practical coping skills to shift from negative ruminations to a more balanced perspective.

3. Gain more energy and clarity by letting go of work-related negativity, improving not only your own peace but also the atmosphere at home with your loved ones.

Tune in now to discover actionable strategies that will help you reduce negativity and bring more calm into your work life—even if your job isn't changing anytime soon!

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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.