Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there, welcome to another episode of the AT parenting survival

podcast. Today I want to talk to you about parenting your child through panic

attacks. That could be a really scary and upsetting thing to do.

And even if your child hasn't had a panic attack, but you have an anxious child,

this is an important episode to listen to because sometimes preparing and knowing ahead

of time how to handle these things is the absolute best thing.

And unfortunately I learned that personally about a month ago when my daughter had her first panic

attack, and that was eye-opening, and very sad.

So that's why I want to talk about this today because I feel like panic attacks are one of those things that scare us as parents.

Because our child is panicking and it's really hard for us to not panic as well.

So I want to start off with letting you know what panic attacks are

and how they affect people.

And I get this on a very personal level,

because unfortunately, I had panic attacks when I got into college my first year.

I was an anxious kid growing up and nobody diagnosed me with child anxiety and I just didn't even realize that my

personality was anxious until ironically I became a child therapist and I was

like oh I totally get these kids I mean I felt that way too as a kid and then after a while I was like oh my gosh I was a really anxious kid and I didn't I didn't realize that I had anxiety until I became a child therapist and especially until I became

a mom. Isn't that weird?

So when I was having these physiological experiences in college, I had no idea what they were.

All of a sudden, my heart would race,

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