Jodi Aman - Anxiety, I'm So Done with You
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 212 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode of "Mad in the Family" focuses on how adolescents can better manage and even overcome anxiety—something the news media and our own eyes tell us so many young people these days are struggling with.
Our guest is Jodi Amen, LCSW, a psychotherapist and coach who has more than 20 years of experience working with children, their parents, and helpers. A graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work, she has studied and taught Narrative Therapy around the globe and speaks to conferences, schools, and universities. Jodi is also trained in using complementary and alternative modalities including Ayurveda, mindfulness, yoga, energy healing, and herbalism.
A TEDx speaker and YouTuber, she is also a best-selling author. Her books include You 1, Anxiety 0, and most recently Anxiety....I'm So Done With You: A Teen's Guide to Ditching Toxic Stress & Hardwiring Your Brain For Happiness(Skyhorse Publishing).
Jodi has a private practice in Rochester, New York, and is the mother of teenagers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to Madden the Family, the podcast of Mad in America's Parent Resources Section. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Miranda Spencer. |
| 0:29.6 | Today we're going to discuss dealing with adolescent anxiety, something the news media and our own eyes tell us so many young people these days are struggling with. With us is Jody Aman. |
| 0:32.6 | Jody Aman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and coach who has more than 20 years of experience |
| 0:39.9 | working with children, their parents, and helpers. A graduate of Columbia University School of |
| 0:45.0 | Social Work, she has studied and taught narrative therapy around the globe and speaks |
| 0:49.6 | internationally to conferences, schools, and universities. She is also trained in Ayurveda, mindfulness, yoga, energy healing, and herbalism, among other |
| 0:59.6 | modalities. |
| 1:01.5 | A TEDx speaker and YouTuber, Jody is also a best-selling author. |
| 1:06.0 | Her books include U1, Anxiety Zero, and most recently, Anxiety I Am So Done done with you a teen's guide to ditching toxic |
| 1:14.8 | stress and hardwiring your brain for happiness which was published on july seven by sky horse |
| 1:20.5 | publishing jody has her private practice in rochester new york and is a mom of teens. Welcome. Thank you. So, first, a bit about |
| 1:32.1 | you. You've shared how you developed an intense problem with anxiety and panic at a young age. |
| 1:38.8 | What happened? And briefly, how did you eventually cure yourself? Well, I think when I was five years old, I learned about |
| 1:46.7 | the presidents. It was February. It was President's Day. And I was at a father-daughter event. |
| 1:51.6 | And it was a craft activity. I mean, it was so benign, right? But on the way home, I started to think, |
| 1:57.3 | like, I never see those guys around anymore. So I asked my father, he said, |
| 2:01.3 | where are the president now, Daddy? And his neck got really long and his face got really pale. |
| 2:07.4 | And he said, they're dead. And I didn't know what that was, but he tried to explain it. |
| 2:13.1 | Probably didn't do great job, but how'd he explain it to a five-year-old? And I realized, like, |
| 2:18.3 | anything I had secure in my life could be taken away. And I could be taken away. And so I was |
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