Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It's Bill and Wendy. It's the Bill and Wendy podcast. We're thrilled that you're listening. And today is a very exciting one because it's the return of one of our all-time favorite guests, clinical

psychologist, bestselling author of the available parent, certified life coach, and two-time

winner of the Betty Crocker Bake Off is Dr. John Duffy. John remind us, it was for your

candied yams, was it not? It was the candied yams, Bill. You just to remind us it was for your candied yams, was it not?

It was the candied yams, Bill.

You've got a keen memory for this kind of thing.

And let's not forget his new book, which is actually perfect timing to go hand in hand with what we're experiencing right now.

The new book is parenting the new teen in the age of

anxiety. We've got a lot of that going on, don't we? Yeah, unfortunately, we have more of that

than I even, I envisioned when I came up with the title of the book. I didn't anticipate that the

age of anxiety was going to be this age of anxiety. We've kind of amplified a little bit.

John, to state the obvious, the anxiety comes from everything that's happened with the virus,

the racial discord in the country, all the all the byproducts of that.

It's all just been kind of lumped in the fact that many of us have been quarantined for three

months.

Those are all contributing factors,

aren't they?

They absolutely are.

I mean, when I finished that book, though, it was almost a year ago before any of this happened.

And I was talking about things like perfectionism and keeping up with the Joneses and the fear

of missing out and social media and too much time on screens.

And now we have this whole new set of stressors that has taken us by storm over the past,

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