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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

How can I get my anxious child to use their coping tools?


This week we discuss "coping" and how sometimes parents misunderstand what that means. 


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Tuesday, March 05, 2024

How can I tell if my child's anxiety is general or situational?


The person who asked this question is trying to figure out if the anxiety she's seeing in her child is just due to a specific situation or a sign that her child is more generally anxious. I share some thoughts about how to figure that out. 


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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

How can we tell when it's anxiety and when it's a preference?


Figuring out when to intervene with our anxious child is tricky and it's personal. Here are some questions to consider as you're trying to figure it out.


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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

How do I make my anxious child change?


Parents reach out for help because they need their anxious child to learn to not be anxious or to handle their anxiety more effectively. But we can't make our anxious child or even want to change. What we can do is focus on our own change. In this week's episode, we dig into this uncomfortable truth.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

What do you do when a child is still as anxious if not more anxious of something after exposing them to it?


This question from a listener gives us the opportunity to talk about some of the details we need to know to appropriate address our individual child's anxiety, especially around things like school refusal. 


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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Is it my anxiety? Or my child's?


This week I explain why it almost doesn't matter whose anxiety started the anxious patterns in the family because the intervention is the same -- at least to start. Also if you'd like to sign up for the free webinar "Tell Me It Will Be OK: How to Talk About Your Child's Anxiety (without making things worse)" just head here: ChildAnxietySupport.com/webinar


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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

When should I be concerned about my anxious child?


This week we explore parental concern in regards to child anxiety and what it means if the child is anxious and what if it means if they aren't (or at least if they aren't clinically anxious). Remember to reach out to me if you have further questions!


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