Karen Young

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 084: Karen Young of Hey Sigmund Talks About Anxiety in Kids · 21 Nov 2017 podcast

And Hey Warrior came from that post and that conversation with my daughter.

So it's basically that conversation in a book for kids.

And I suppose the passion is easy when it's a little bit personal.

exist

that's how

about it?

Yeah.

So basically it talks about anxiety as

Because anxiety comes from a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is a really primitive, really instinctive part.

So it's been doing what it does for as long as people have been people.

So it's really good at what it does.

And its whole job really is to get us ready to fight or flee, to keep us safe when there's danger.

Now, the thing about it is it doesn't mean there's danger there.

So sometimes the brain can be a bit overreactive or a bit overprotective.

the way to think of anxiety is not as something broken and not as something that's there to hurt you or as something mean in your brain, but it's something that's like a fierce warrior there to protect you.

So that's how I describe it in the book and that's how I described it to my daughter.

So it's like a fierce warrior there to protect you.

So when it thinks you might be in trouble, it will surge your body with a special body fuel to make you stronger, faster, more powerful.

Now, the first thing that happens is your breathing changes from,

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