Welcome to Anxiety Slayer

Anxiety Slayer.

I'm Shan Vanderbilt.

With 7 million downloads and hundreds of podcasts,

Anxiety Slayer is an award-winning podcast for anyone suffering from anxiety,

PTSD, panic attacks, trauma, and high levels of stress.

Today I'm speaking with Ada Perez. Ada is an author, life strategist, and communications professional

with a passion for mindful parenting.

She is the author of the new book, Anxious Mom, Anxious Child, A Mother's Journey from Anxiety to Serenity.

Hi, Ada, welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast.

Thank you for having me. It's such a pleasure to have this conversation

with you today. Ananga and I met earlier this week and we realized that over all of

these years we really haven't talked about the mother's

journey and and how suffering with anxiety how that can affect our children and

our relationship with our children.

So this is a topic we're very excited to talk with you about and

learn more from you and your story.

I would love it if you would share your journey from living in Puerto Rico to moving to Atlanta to discovering that anxiety was affecting you in your life and as a mom and as a woman and as a professional and just kind of walk us through

a little bit of that story that brought you to the space that you are now to helping

so many others and of course the creation of your new book, Anxious Mom, Anxious Child. In many ways my story is similar to the hundreds of other children who dream of a bigger

dream when they're living outside of the United States and that was my case I dreamt a big

dream of coming to the United States after college and working in the United States, I was curious about the experience of other

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