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

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

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

podcast. I hope you're having an amazing day. I had an awesome interview with an

awesome person and I'm really excited to share an awesome

person and I'm really excited to share it with you.

It's one of my favorite interviews.

I'm saying that a lot lately,

so that's a good sign that I'm having some good interviews.

We are going to be talking to Amanda Stern. She is the author of The Long Hall and 11 other books for children that she wrote under a pseudonym. And she recently wrote a little panic, which is a memoir about her growing

up with undiagnosed panic and separation anxiety. She is not only an author, but she's a mental health advocate, a speaker, she's on the advisory board for bring change to mind and she is phenomenal to talk to because she's had so much not only has she

experienced firsthand obviously what it's like to live with anxiety and live with

separation anxiety which is interesting to hear from a child's perspective,

you know, her reflecting back on her childhood, but she also has such an eloquent way of sharing her experience. She's a beautiful writer. And she has gotten

some rave reviews. The New York Times says,

resident and often funny. People magazine said brave fiercely funny a

brilliant read that offers hope for anyone burdened by anxiety oh magazine

said frank and funny it will have chronic worry reports laugh crying with recognition especially

those who think clocks exist only to remind them that time's running out.

BBC said moving, vivid and. And I have to agree.

It was a book that I was reading because I

knew I was interviewing her, and then I couldn't put it down.

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