Episode 35: Parenting with Your Own Anxiety: Strategies for Confidence and Happiness
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ADHD, Autism, And Anxiety: Breaking Out of The Box
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Welcome listeners to this episode of ADHD Autism and Anxiety Breaking Out of the Box. Now you know on this podcast we're always going to be talking about something related to ADHD. or autism or anxiety. And today's podcast is really going to be about anxiety. Now we know there's a lot of overlap between anxiety, ADHD, and autism, but we've got an expert here today, a clinician who I'm going to have all kinds of, you know me, deep questions for that I hope will help you. So let me introduce her and then we'll get right started. Doctor Alicia Del Prado is an award winning psychologist, published author, and the founder of Del Prado Counseling and Consulting in California. With twenty five years of clinical experience and a PhD in counseling psychology, she specializes in helping professionals, parents, women, and students live their best lives and become their best version of themselves.
You know I love that. doctor Del Prado has expertise in treating anxiety, depression, and relationship problems with evidence based, culturally congruent psychotherapy. She teaches practical dialogue skills for having hard conversations with clarity and care and is the co-author of It's Time to Talk and Listen How to Have Constructive Conversations About Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability, and Gender in a Polarized World. doctor Del Prado was named the most influential Filipino Woman in the World Award, was a tenured professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and co founded the American Asian the Asian American Psychology. Association's Division on Multiracial and Adopted Asian Americans. Welcome, Dr.
Del Prado. Thank you so much. It's really an honor to be here with you today. I'm thrilled you're here and I just wanna dive into all kinds of things that you have expertise in. And so Um, one of the things that I'm hoping we could talk about today, and this is what my first question is about. You know, at Russell Coaching we see kids who have ADHD, autism, or anxiety. Most of the time they have Two. Um Of those. But when we see kids who have anxiety, we also often see that the parents will share, Oh, I have anxiety too, you know, or will see that there's some anxiety there. And I want us to start our conversation today about Parents who have anxiety, myself included here, right? Like um What can we do as we're raising neurodiverse kids to take care of ourselves, to acknowledge our anxiety and
To get in the best place possible. What What What can parents be doing when they themselves experience anxiety? Yes.
Well, such a great question and such a rich one. I'll start with saying that start with your strengths. So it's really important that we acknowledge the strength and endurance and perseverance it takes to live with anxiety. And so if we're able to do that, I believe that we will be putting the right foot forward, so to speak, with our children. So I'll give an example. Because often we experience stress and hardship with anxiety and also with neurodiversity, there's a tendency to go to what's not working and what's negative. And that's understandable. We're not trying to gaslight ourselves. And at the same time, if we start with our strengths, it can really model to our children and to ourselves, okay, what's working first?
We'll go to what's not working next, but first I'd say start with your s with our strengths.
Okay, I am having such a moment here because In my work with kids, both you know, when I was teaching, when I was doing positive youth development and nonprofits and now in coaching. This is where we start with coaching. All of our kids who come to coaching do a strengths assessment.
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Alicia, never, never have I considered this for myself as an anxious mom. I wouldn't even begin to know How to talk to myself about what my strengths are. And you're sitting there saying this as if it's the most Normal, common Um response and I am blown away by this because That's not how I think about myself. As an anxious person and as a mom of kids who've been really challenging, I think about all the ways that
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