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MOMENT | Try this to stop worrying AND teach your children how to face their fears with Mel Robbins

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this clip, I'm speaking with the extraordinary Mel Robbins. Mel is a former layer and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world. Her TedX talk has had nearly 30 million views and she is the author of the best-selling book the High Five Habit. And if you want to catch the full episode, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Something that you talk about so brilliantly, you know, is anxiety and you're so open that you've struggled with it for 30 years.

0:53.7

And, you know, you talk about that as in projecting worry into the future, you know,

0:58.8

when we start to become anxious.

1:00.1

And almost every single parent I speak to every single day says some version of,

1:05.6

I'm so worried that my kid's not going to be okay.

1:08.3

And I think I've got this unique moment where I'm speaking to a mother

1:11.2

of three grown-up children and this world leader in personal development and someone who struggled

1:18.7

with anxiety, how can you help that parent, you know, and I'm probably asking this for myself,

1:25.1

who worries a lot about their kids? Well, I think it's a good thing to worry about your kids.

1:29.8

And the reason why we worry about our kids is because our parents worried about us.

1:33.7

So we assume that's what it means and what you're supposed to do if you love your kids.

1:39.2

I think worry is an important thing.

1:42.5

And it's important if it's productive. So if you're worried about something

1:47.5

and it motivates you to change your behavior or put in a new process or to do something

1:54.4

for the better, that's a good thing. But if your worry is more of the ruminating self-destructive type that keeps you up at night,

2:03.3

that's a terrible thing.

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