PSP 058 : Kids Will Get Better Anxiety Relief if They Understand Anxiety: Interview with Karen Young from Hey Sigmund, Author of Hey Warrior
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Karen Young. |
| 0:21.0 | Karen Young is best known as the creator of Hey Sigmund.com. |
| 0:25.0 | One of my favorite websites that talks a lot about mental health and has a lot about anxiety. |
| 0:32.0 | Karen Young is a psychologist and a sought-out speaker |
| 0:36.0 | and her website reaches millions of readers every year around the world. |
| 0:40.0 | She has recently come out with a new book called Hey Warrior, which is an amazing |
| 0:46.0 | children's book that helps children understand anxiety in a very simplistic, informative sort of |
| 0:52.0 | way. I love it. I think it's super cute. I own it and I also |
| 0:56.2 | share it in my practice and try to get parents to read it to their children. So Karen and I had a |
| 1:02.4 | wonderful conversation about many different topics. |
| 1:06.0 | We talked about why it's important to teach your kids about anxiety, about the mechanisms of anxiety. She talks about how to help your kids work |
| 1:17.7 | through the physiological responses of anxiety when it's physically hurting |
| 1:22.3 | them, when their stomach hurts, or they're |
| 1:24.9 | getting panicky. |
| 1:26.6 | She talks about why it's important to explain anxiety and partner with your child so that they can understand why they need to |
| 1:35.0 | breathe in a different way or why they need to think in a different way. |
| 1:39.8 | And I like the way that she approaches children and so she gives some really good |
| 1:44.3 | suggestions on that and then we get to talk about her book and how it helps |
| 1:49.8 | children what ages it's appropriate for and how to use the book as a parent, as a tool in your |
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