194. Anxious Nation: 3 Ways to Raise Less Anxious Kids with Laura Morton
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety in American youth has been steadily increasing in the recent past, impacting families across the country. In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, we talk to writer and producer Laura Morton about what she learned about helping young people cope with anxiety while making the documentary film “Anxious Nation.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to welcome Laura Morton, who is joining us for this week's episode of |
| 0:13.5 | Spiritually Hungry. |
| 0:14.9 | Laura is co-director, producer, writer, creator, creator of Anxious Nation. |
| 0:20.2 | First time director, Laura Morton, has been involved |
| 0:22.5 | in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years. She's written over 60 books, 21 New York |
| 0:28.4 | Time bestsellers, is a producer, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is also a parent of an anxious |
| 0:34.3 | child, her daughter, Sevi, the inspiration behind Anxious Nation. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. The number of children diagnosed with mental |
| 0:45.4 | health disorder, which includes depression, ADHD, and anxiety has been steadily increasing. |
| 0:51.0 | Even before COVID, the numbers were soaring. Our guest today is writer and producer Laura |
| 0:56.0 | Morton. When mental health took a center stage in her family, she set out to find other |
| 1:01.0 | families navigating the same challenges as she was finding with her daughter. So this insight that |
| 1:08.2 | she learned was so monumental and she is here today to share with us, |
| 1:12.5 | her ideas and her amazing documentary called Anxious Nation. |
| 1:17.1 | I highly recommend it. |
| 1:18.6 | I walked away with so many takeaways. |
| 1:21.1 | Welcome, Laura. |
| 1:21.8 | We're very excited to discuss this with you today. |
| 1:24.6 | Oh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm really happy to be here and to share our film |
| 1:29.1 | with your audience. It's so raw. It's so real. It's obviously so personal. I thought what was really |
| 1:35.4 | kind of the first moment that I took pause and watching it, you were saying that there are an |
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