TPP 201a: A Conversation with Author Amanda Stern on Growing Up with a Panic Disorder
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of the conversation with Amanda Stern on growing up with a panic disorder?
Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a Playback Friday episode. It's a powerful conversation from Deep in the Tilt Parenting Podcast archives. Unless you're a longtime listener, you likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something completely different from it this time around.
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Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. This episode is actually especially relevant this week, bearing in mind what we're all experiencing as this is being released in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, because I know that many of us and our kids are experiencing increased anxiety right now. Well, my guest, Amanda Stern, has suffered from an anxiety and panic disorder for her whole life, and she has a lot to share with us. I met Amanda at the Shift Your Thinking conference in Toronto last fall, where she shared her story of growing up with an undiagnosed panic disorder. It was so powerful.
And following that event, I then grabbed Amanda's memoir, Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Lovely. Life, which really has just stayed with me since I read it. And I knew instantly that I needed to bring her onto the show. As you know, one of my core messages here at Tilled Parenting is that our children aren't broken or in need of fixing, and that our job is to become fluent in who our kids are and support them in being the best, most fulfilled version of themselves. And Amanda is someone who always felt as a child that something about her was wrong or broken. And so much of her frustration was that people People could not see it. And this is why it's so important for me to share her story and her insights.
So in our conversation, we do a deep dive into what it was like for Amanda living with a severe panic disorder, with no ability to describe it or understand it. to really even know what was going on, uh what it was like to revisit those panic attacks of her childhood in order to write this book, and how she felt finally getting a diagnosis when she was twenty five years old. This is such an important perspective to hear, and I'm so grateful for Amanda's generosity in this frank and vulnerable discussion. So I hope you get a lot out of it. A little more about Amanda. In addition to writing Little Panic, she's also the author of nine children's books, including the Frankly Fanny series and the novel The Long Haul.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New York Times magazine, the New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Salon, and many more. And most recently she launched a podcast called Bookable, in which she is in conversation with both established authors authors and emerging writers. And now here is my conversation with Amanda Stern. Hello Amanda, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm really excited about this conversation. Ever since, you know, you and I met in Toronto, we both spoke at the Shift Your Thinking Summit and I think we both heard each other talk and we were like, Oh my goodness, we need to do a traveling show or something because I just was really rapt by your story and it's such a important perspective for parents raising differently wired kids, parents in my community.
to hear from. So I just so appreciate the work that you do.
Oh well thank you. And right back at you. And we really do have to stage our our thirty six city tour together.
Yes. All right. Let's get working on that. Um after the after this episode. Um well what I would love for you to do, I mean You've written an incredible book called Little Panic, in which you share your personal story of growing up with an undiagnosed panic disorder.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of the conversation with Amanda Stern on growing up with a panic disorder?
0:00–5:55
2
How did Amanda first notice she was experiencing anxiety differently as a child?
5:55–11:15
3
What were Amanda’s childhood panic attacks like and how did she cope with them?
11:15–16:22
4
How did finally receiving a panic‑disorder diagnosis change Amanda’s life?
16:22–21:36
5
What process did Amanda use to translate her panic experiences into the memoir *Little Panic*?
21:36–26:18
6
What advice does Amanda give parents for recognizing and supporting a child with severe anxiety?
26:18–31:55
7
How can adults and teens learn practical skills to manage panic and anxiety after years of avoidance?
31:55–36:32
8
Where can listeners find Amanda’s resources and learn more about anxiety support?
36:32–41:42
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