What do we do when we're not comfortable?

Are we able to sit with our own discomfort and work it through before we begin to express that

to our kids? Because that's a really important step, especially when we have kids with anxiety,

because they're looking for cues from us to know that they are safe and that they are competent.

Yeah, yeah, and it's hard as a parent, because I think there's that line that we kind of

teeter between wanting our kids to be safe and wanting our kids to be comfortable and sometimes

those things we can get mixed up. Yes, yeah, absolutely.

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Hi there, and thanks so much for tuning in. Last week, in episode 318, I talked to Dr.

Ellie Leibowitz. Ellie, or Dr. Leibowitz, is an expert in child anxiety, and he created an

innovative program that teaches parents to change their approach to help improve their children's

anxiety. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back and listen to that before you tune into

this one. This conversation with Ellie around changing our approach as parents to support our

children's anxiety really got my wheels spinning about how the way we parent our children impacts

our children's anxiety. Now that's not to imply in any way that we cause our children's anxiety,

but are there things that we can do differently? If we do have a kid that tends to get anxious and

tends to get nervous, I heard this quote recently, which was, the kind thing to do isn't always

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