6 Steps to Reduce Anxiety Podcast #724
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss Jack Kornfield’s advice for reducing anxiety, and how fear, history, and programming can make it more difficult. They process why back-to-school is particularly challenging for parents, and the simultaneous presence of joy and grief as children grow and transition. They are joined by Millie Hsi, a friend and member of their Team Zen virtual community, who shares her personal experiences and insights on coping with anxiety. For the full show notes, visit zenpopparenting.com.
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Time Stamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:01:55) Milli talks about her involvement in the community and her favorite part of community
(00:07:28) Todd Introduces Anxiety and Emotional Well-being
(00:08:09) Parental Role as the Last Line of Defense
(00:10:21) Significance and Prevalence of Anxiety Today
(00:11:00) Step 1: Learning from Jack Kornfield, how to deal with anxiety better
(00:14:17) Importance of Naming Anxiety
(00:16:05) Acknowledgment of anxiety as a human experience and the physiological and cultural reasons behind it are discussed
(00:18:40) Personal Experience with Anxiety
(00:22:53) Step 2: How to work through anxiety?
(00:25:19) What’s the thing that makes you most anxious?
(00:28:45) Step 3 The wisdom of insecurity
(00:30:40) Our partner of the week Koko Sleep – Bedtime Stories & Meditations For Kids
(00:31:30) Discussion about perfectionism
(00:35:50) Shifting away from what you want to say to what you need to hear.
(00:37:55) Step 4: How many of us do something like that when we’re being paralyzed with anxiety?
(00:44:10) Step 5: Question your thoughts
(00:50:40) Step 6: Find where you feel the anxiety most strongly in your body
(00:54:47) Crying in front of your kids
(1:00:00) The parts of us- Richard Schwartz
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| 0:00.0 | Recording in progress. |
| 0:09.8 | Here we go. My name's Todd. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Kathy. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:14.0 | This is podcast number 724. |
| 0:16.5 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? |
| 0:18.2 | Because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:20.0 | There goes my voice. And I always |
| 0:22.3 | remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's well-being, is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:26.9 | On today's show, we have a good friend of ours. Her name is Millie. She, I'm going to give you some |
| 0:31.1 | applause, Millie. And I just told Millie about seven minutes ago that she was going to be at our podcast. So she's completely unprepared. But we, Kathy and I decide, Millie is a friend. We first met you at the Zen Parenting Conference. Were you at the first one? |
| 0:46.7 | Not the first one. I was part of the, the Kickstarter campaign. Okay. I've been listening to you guys since like two years in. Yeah. So how long? |
| 0:55.2 | So that is 11 years. Yeah. So Billy's been with us probably as long as almost anybody. |
| 1:01.2 | Yes. And she's part of teen Zen, which is our virtual community. And OG member. Yes. |
| 1:06.6 | Yes. Absolutely. Read that thing that I sent you. Oh yeah. Billy, I think we came up with a way to describe Team Zen. |
| 1:12.4 | This is our new thing. |
| 1:14.2 | Join the Circle, which is the Team Zen membership platform. |
| 1:17.3 | It's an app with Zen Parenting Radio's complete parenting content collection plus live talks all in one place. |
| 1:24.5 | Our complete parenting content collection, because Millie, we, so Millie's on Team |
| 1:29.6 | Zen, like she said, she's been around forever. And we struggle to explain Team Zen. Because there's |
| 1:36.2 | not because there's just a lot of little things on it that people, you know, it's hard to explain |
| 1:42.3 | in a sound bite because obviously we have all the |
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