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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety

podcast with me, Caroline Forin. On this episode, which is the very last of this season, it has been a super long one,

I am joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Claire Conlon for a very specific conversation that I hope will

be useful for those among you who are parents. This episode, this conversation

really mirrors my own current experience and pretty much what I've been going through

for the last year and a half. It's about the overwhelming anxiety that you can carry as a parent

when you're so worried about your child and the ways in which they appear to be struggling,

when you're not sure what or if something is at play for them,

where to go for support,

and wondering if it's something that will just pass with time

or if it's something you need to look into,

how all of that impacts you,

how common it is to start to turn against yourself and blame yourself.

You are not at fault for anything here.

I draw my own

experience a lot for this, which I'm sure you're used to by now, and I hope you find this episode

reassuring and helpful, and I will be back very soon for a brand new season. In the meantime,

I'm sharing a link in the episode show notes to this for a more detailed article on exactly

what is involved in a private psychological assessment for your child,

at least here in Ireland, things like the cost, timelines, that kind of thing. So if you want to

learn more about that, go to that link and as a valued loyal listener of owning it, you'll get a

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