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Hello, dear listener and welcome to another episode of owning

at the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week's episode is maybe a little bit niche in that

it will be particularly relevant, if not entirely only relevant, to parents of toddlers.

I do think having listened back to the conversation,

there's an awful lot of what we talk about here that would apply to ourselves as adults.

So if you're just a regular listener, please do stick around. You will definitely get something

from this. If you are someone like me going through the toddler years with a very sensitive, very spirited toddler. I will use

that word because that sounds a little bit nicer than some of the ways I want to describe them sometimes.

This is the episode for you. So I'm joined here by Dr. Ethan Cross. He's been on the podcast before.

New York Times bestselling author, so incredibly

accomplished all kinds of accolades and letters after his name. He's a neuroscientist. He's a

psychologist. And here I'm asking him specifically about how to regulate myself so that I can help

regulate my child. So I find that I'm experiencing a lot of anxiety around

my son's ups and downs and I'm mirroring a lot of his emotions when really I'm supposed to be the

calm and collective adult. I find it very hard to do. And also when my son does calm down after

an epic meltdown, I'm left reeling with the anxiety of it then

there's the anxiety around you know are you doing the right thing are you responding in the

right way and the fear that we're going to somehow mess up our kids which I think once you

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