How to Help Kids (and Yourself) When Anxiety Takes Over

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today we’re talking about something so many of us are facing — how to help our kids when their minds are spinning with worry, fear, and big emotions. It’s actually perfect timing because my, my newest kids’ book, based on Get Out Of Your Head, is now available — What To Do With Your Whirly, Swirly Thoughts— and it’s all about giving kids (and ourselves) simple tools to name their feelings and find peace when their thoughts feel out of control. Jennie shares practical, hope-filled ways to help kids navigate fear, build resilience, and anchor their hearts in God’s truth. So whether you’re a parent, an aunt, a coach, a teacher — this conversation is for you. Let’s dive into what to say, what to do, and how to anchor our kids (and ourselves) in truth when anxiety tries to take over. Get a copy of What To Do With Your Whirly, Swirly Thoughts⁠ today and leave a review - we'd love to know what your family thinks about the book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! CONNECT ON SOCIALS • Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Pinterest

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0:00.0	Do you know a child struggling with anxiety?
0:02.7	They are not alone.
0:04.2	You are listening to Made for this podcast.
0:14.0	Anxiety, it is the number one struggle that we are seeing among the next generation.
0:20.6	Now, I know it's pretty rampant in our
0:22.7	generation too, but looking at kids, the statistics, the percentages for it to be happening so
0:27.7	young, this is absolutely alarming. But the reality is not that we can protect them and keep them
0:31.8	at home for the rest of their lives and keep all the pressures and stresses off. My hope is
0:36.5	that maybe we've been operating at gear six,
0:39.8	which doesn't really even exist on a car, but we would like to get back to maybe downshift to a lower gear like two.
0:46.5	And so what I want to see for our kids is what does that lower gear look like? And I'm going to be pretty bold.
0:53.0	I'm going to grab you by the arms. I'm going to be a mama bear here because I really believe there's some simple choices that we can
0:57.9	make that could help our kids on the other side of this so that we don't go back to this crazy
1:04.0	chaotic lifestyle that perhaps is stressing them out. Now, I don't want to assume that for a vast
1:09.0	majority of these kids that there isn't some
1:11.2	chemical imbalance.
1:12.2	It's very possible.
1:13.4	But again, we talk about what are the things we can control.
1:17.2	Also mentioning that it's important and necessary to see counselors, to see doctors, to get
1:23.4	medicine if needed, that we are believers in those things being tools that God can use to help
1:27.8	bring healing. So let me be really clear what I am talking about, what I'm not talking about.
1:31.6	I'm not suggesting that having less sports in your life is going to cause, you know, an imbalance
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