Karen Young
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366 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
Karen Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're all there for a really good reason and it's to protect you.
It's to look after you.
So that's why when there's a ball, a basketball coming at your head, you can, you can act super quickly before you've even noticed that basketball, your brain has registered and it's getting you ready and you can
move really quickly.
It's why, you know, you hear stories about mothers lifting branches off cars to save their babies and firemen running people out of buildings.
That's when it works well, that surge of neurochemicals.
So it's all there to keep us safe.
But sometimes...
It can be overprotective and work too hard, and the amygdala can sense threat or danger when there's no threat or danger there.
And that's okay, but what happens is it surges you with these neurochemicals, but if there's nothing to burn them off, which is what happens if there's nothing to fight or flee, there's no danger.
The neurochemicals build up, and that's when anxiety occurs.
feels really awful and frightening and that can also feed into anxiety about the anxiety so if there's something happens at school drop-off that an anxiety is triggered and it can only happen you know it only has to happen once then that memory of that anxiety can be I remember how I feel when I'm about to be dropped off it feels scary and I feel like I'm going to vomit or my head feels tight you know so it's anxiety about the anxiety so by explaining where anxiety comes from
And explaining it as it's like this little warrior in your brain that's trying to protect you.
But what you need to do is be the boss of your brain.
Because at the moment, your brain's kind of calling all the shots, but it'll work better when you're in charge.
You're kind of like a team.
And so that's what reading does, mindfulness, and also the understanding of what's happening.
And that takes the fear away and it empowers kids with a better response than kind of feeding into the anxiety.
Because anxiety is so convincing and so persuasive.
So basically, that's what the book's about.
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