It’s OK to be Anxious (sometimes)

Childproof

Gwenna Laithland and Tori Phantom

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you gotta do it anxious. There’s a difference between feeling anxious and living with anxiety. No matter what level of anxious you feel, you still have to parent and adult and work and live. This episode we discuss how anxiety impacts us, how we help our kids process their anxiety, and how anxiety isn’t all bad all the time.

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0:00.0	I was like, oh, my kid is so careful and cautious.
0:02.6	I have clearly parented them so well.
0:04.8	And then, you know, my middle kiddo was born and put me in my place.
0:09.7	Raising a well-behaved child in this world requires strict discipline and punishment.
0:14.3	Today, we will look.
0:15.6	No, the fuck.
0:16.6	We will not.
0:31.8	Hello and welcome to childproof.
0:32.7	I'm Gwenalithland.
0:33.9	And I'm Tori Phantom.
0:35.9	And I have anxiety. That is a bold way to start an episode, Tori Phantom and I have anxiety.
0:40.8	That is a bold way to start an episode, Tori.
0:42.5	Yeah, yeah, I know.
0:50.1	I have anxiety and am anxious about doing an episode about anxiety, even though it was my idea.
0:56.7	But I'm going to do it anxious because lots of folks have to do lots of things with anxiety while anxious, including parenting, including me.
1:02.4	Let's anxiously talk about anxiety and anxiousness.
1:06.5	But first, let's start the timer.
1:08.8	Okay, so when you first pitched this episode, I was like, yeah.
1:13.4	And then behind the scenes, no one asked for.
1:16.4	We use shared notes to plan our episodes.
1:19.8	So we'll go back and forth adding a little sometimes nonsensical words, but it's meant
1:24.5	to remind me of what I was going to talk about.
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