I'm Kavita Kadusa and this is NPR's Life Kit.

Watching a child deal with anxiety is tough.

It's tempting to focus on wanting to make that anxiety go away.

When we were approached to write a book and anxiety,

they actually asked us to write a book about trying to get rid of it for kids.

And we told them that we have a different take on it.

That this is part of us, so it's not about getting rid of.

It's about transforming.

That's Reenie Jane. She's the founder of Gozen.

She and her co-author, Shifali Sabri,

wanted to take a different approach to kids and anxiety

when they were writing a book on the topic.

We wanted to really take it head on and normalize it

and really get kids to embrace it,

which sounds strange to most parents and most kids when they first hear that.

Their book Superpowered, Transforming Xiety

into Courage, Confidence and Resilience,

helps children change their relationship with anxiety,

rather than change the anxiety itself.

A radical idea, they say, in a society that tries to ignore hard feelings.

It's revolutionary to feel your feelings in today's world,

and that's really a tragedy.

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