Karen Young
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366 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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So that will give you the words to give them about where anxiety comes from, what the physical symptoms mean, so they can understand why they feel the way they do.
I think that's the most important thing.
And that's where I see the change happening.
Then the next thing I would do
is start with a regular practice of mindfulness.
Because what we know from tons and tons of research is that mindfulness changes the structure and function of the brain.
So it
actually calms down activity in the amygdala.
It increases activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that can actually calm the amygdala and calm big emotion and think logically.
And it also strengthens the connections between the two.
So the brain needs to work well separately, but it also needs to work well together.
So when the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala are connected,
that's when it's going to be easier to take charge of that anxious response before it becomes something that feels really awful.
Mindfulness is amazing.
There are apps that can help kids with mindfulness.
I've got articles on the site about how to do mindfulness with kids.
It's really just a form of meditation, but brains need to be still, bodies need to move, so exercise is the other one.
We know exercise increases the neurochemicals that help to calm the neurons in the brain that can
feed into anxiety.
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