Social Anxiety Or Social Awkwardness: What's Normal?

The Anxious Parent: When It's One of You or Both of You: The Anxious Parent: Most families have one, some families have two. But what important role does a non-anxious parent play? How do worry and control often dictate parenting dynamics that put stress on a relationship? How can you tell if anxiety is in charge of your household, and what can you do about it? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

42 min listen

The Anxiety Vaccine pt 2: What Parents Can Do Right Now: As we face a mental health crisis alongside the pandemic that we really focus on the emotional management skills that we can teach our children. It's an effective way to immunize them against emotional difficulties by talking about their emotions, raising their awareness of them, and parents modeling emotional literacy. Lynn discusses the commons trait that most anxious parents have in common in how they raise anxious kids. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

58 min listen

The Real Truth About Phobias and How To Manage Them: Emetaphobia, Astraphobia, Autophobia. Some kids became afraid of a variety of things: throwing up, needles, dogs, thunderstorms, the dark. As parents we want to help, we want to make our kids feels safe and comfortable. We want to address the worry. But how we do that often just makes the worry and fear stronger. In this episode I ask Lynn to explain her effective approach of addressing the process of worry and not the content. Because when we try to address the specifics of what our kids worry about, we invite anxiety to move in and take hold. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

40 min listen

Supporting Teens in the Pandemic: How They Need Us Most: Teens are part of the age group hardest hit by the impact of the pandemic. Missing out on both the social development and high school's rituals, teens are losing motivation, sleep, and connection. Here's how to help them. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

48 min listen

When Anxious Kids Deny They're Anxious: When anxious kids can't see that they are anxious or refuse therapy, anxiety expert Lynn Lyons talks about options parents have in helping their kids. We also discuss a listener question where a daughter denies she's anxious or has OCD tendencies. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

45 min listen

This Makes Anxiety Worse: What Not to Do to Help Your Kids: At the conclusion of Mental Health Awareness month, we weed through the bad advice that is so prevalent about anxiety that only makes it worse. We discuss the certain skills we must help our kids (and ourselves) develop to manage anxiety, and we talk about the things parents might try that have the desired outcome. This is an updated version of a previously released episode. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

47 min listen

School Anxiety: How To Help Our Kids & Teens: Many families are feeling anxious about changes to their school routine, both kids and parents. How do we support our kids and teens and help them manage their worry about going back to school? And when does this worry become more serious and lead to school avoidance and school refusal? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

41 min listen

Rage: Managing Our Anger in a Tinderbox World: Rage. As we all grieve for a pre-pandemic world, we feel a lot of rage with our sadness. Anxiety expert and therapist Lynn Lyons talks about why we collectively feel anger and brings it home to our family and children. How do you help your children through outbursts? How do you raise kids who don't have outbursts as an adult? How do you manage your own rage? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

46 min listen

We’re Our Own Worst Critics: Anxiety and depression are both internalizing disorders, and identifying our own internal patterns is good to understand so that we can proactively reach externally and connect with others. In honor of the holidays and giving thanks, we discuss the difference between limiting gratitude to an internal habit or leveraging the power of gratitude externally And this episode gets a little silly. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

38 min listen

Families & The Power of Listening: We talk a lot about the power of words...teaching kids to put words to their feelings, modeling emotional literacy. But the flip side of talking—the critical flip side—is listening. What happens when you don’t feel heard? What’s the toll on your mental health, royal or not? When our kids and teens talk, can we tap into the full power of listening? We discuss the way the public health conversation may change after Oprah's interview with Megan and Harry. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

21 min listen

A Reminder for Silliness and the Power of Play: In this quick check-in for the New Year, anxiety expert Lynn Lyons reminds parents that silliness is just about the healthiest energy in a house, and that the power of play is very, very real. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

6 min listen

Not Talking About Anxiety Makes It Worse: One of the easiest mistakes we make when trying to deal without anxiety is to try get rid of the thing that makes us anxious. Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons explains why that isn't the goal but also why talking about anxiety is critical for a family when learning to tame it. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

15 min listen

Flusterclux in Session: When Anxiety Is Your Teen's Life Coach: One listener's teen is trapped by the details of her many worries, and her mom is trying to address each one with rational information and reassuring promises. Hear me offer mom Tori an alternative to letting her daughter's worry rule the family. It’s hard for parents to step out of the content of worry, but it’s also the key to success. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

57 min listen

High Anxiety & Good Grades: Our Toxic Achievement Culture: We end Season 2 with a bang of an episode. Finishing off our conversation about preventing anxiety in our kids, we tackle the toxicity of our achievement culture. It’s so normalized it’s invisible to us. And we answer a listener question about how to develop a strong work ethic in her 8 year old twins. Lynn has a must hear answer for kids of any age. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

46 min listen

Listeners Ask: Teens & Drinking and Anxiety vs. Intuition: In today’s episode Lynn answers two listener questions. First a mom discovers her 15 year old has been thinking of drinking to manage her stress. What are the conversations parents should be having with their teens around stress, substance abuse and peer pressure?And another mom raised by an anxious parent is trying to break the cycle with her daughters. She asks Lynn how to know when the voices inside her head are generational patterns of worry repeating or intuitive warnings. How does anxiety filter the decisions we make and the information we receive? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

46 min listen

The Bad Advice That Makes Anxiety Worse: There's a lot of bad advice out there to weed through when so many claim to be parenting or anxiety experts. But some well-meaning advice will actually strengthen your child's anxious habits, and Lynn Lyons explains why. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

46 min listen

OCD in Families: What it Is and Isn't: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is often missed or just misunderstood. What is OCD and what isn’t? How does it differ from really anxious thoughts? How is it treated? While it can show up at any point in life, some kids commonly show signs around 7 when there’s a family history. Lynn explains the connection with anxiety and how it differs, but most importantly, how to manage it and what signs to look for. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

54 min listen

Flusterclux: For Parents Who Worry: Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-host and sister-in-law Robin Hutson in a weekly podcast free of psychobabble and full of concrete advice to help parents and their manage worry. Her strategies apply to both those adults and children with anxiety disorders as well as thier prevention. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

1 min listen

Anxiety in Families: Is it Nature or Nurture?: Is anxiety genetic? Does it run in families? If your parents had anxiety or depression, what does that mean for you and your children? What approaches can we take to disrupt these generational cycles? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

20 min listen

Raising Kids Who Are Really Ready For College Isn’t What You Think: Parents and students are focusing on college admissions earlier and earlier, hoping to get a head start on what has become an increasingly competitive race through high school. They say they want their kids to be “happy” and “successful” in college, but if parents are obsessed with getting in, are they developing the right skills to help them thrive once there? Anxiety Expert and therapist Lynn Lyons shares her perspective after treating teens for decades through this process and well after. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

42 min listen

The Good News About Your Kid's Psychological Immune System: immune system and the role of both positive and adverse childhood experiences. While adverse childhood experiences could happen to our kids, parents can have much more control over creating the seven positive childhood experiences that support mental health for life. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

44 min listen

Parenting, Perfectionism, and Anxiety: How We Reward Its Toxicity: Perfectionism and anxiety create a torture chamber we don't want to model for kids. When we reward excellence, how do we know when it becomes toxic? We explain how a parents can check their own behaviors as well as what to look for and say to their kids. Robin and Lynn discuss recent episodes on the Anxiety vaccine, and ways parents can prepare their children better for difficult and awkward feelings. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

43 min listen

Summer Camp & Separation Anxiety: After an atypical year of intense togetherness with our kids, parents may be out of practice being apart from their kids. Today we talk about the separation anxiety parents feel around summer camp, because it really is harder on us that it is on them. How can we best prepare our own kids leaving home for somewhere new? How we can manage our worry when our kids are out of our sight? Why is it so important to learn this skill as a parent? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

45 min listen

Burnout: Parents, Teachers, Healthcare Workers, This Is For You: Burnout. It's certainly a word we're hearing frequently, particularly in those who work in healthcare and education. But because burnout is often specific to the role of caring for others, there's a reason why parents feel burnout, too. We unpack burnout, what helps and what makes it worse. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

34 min listen

Yelling At Our Kids: When its OK and When It's Not: Yelling, or even when kids perceive that we are yelling, is a part of most family communications. In this episode anxiety expert and therapist, Lynn Lyons, LICSW, talks about the things we need to pay attention to if and when we yell. This is the last of our short summer episodes before Season 4! by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

17 min listen

Helping Teens Reframe Their Social Anxiety: It's time for a new Flusterclux In Session episode where anxiety expert Lynn Lyons offers a listener consultation. Hear from Mom Becky who is worried about her anxious 16 year old daughter. Becky is thinking ahead and wondering how to prepare her kind, sensitive daughter to take the next steps toward college. Social anxiety and a traumatic event have teamed up to shut this teenager down from seeking social connection. Lynn guides this mom out of her own worry and reframes her daughter’s strengths to get them both moving forward. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

57 min listen

Romance & Resentment: Co-Parenting Tips You Need Now: This pandemic has disproportionately impacted mothers. It's putting our relationships to the test. So as we work to support our kids, there are traps we all fall into our our relationships. We talk about learning to ask for help in the right way, dropping that defensiveness, reducing that resentment, and how improving your co-parenting will help your kids more than you know, by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

46 min listen

Dads, Depression, and Anxiety: So often the moms assume the role of supporting the family’s health and mental health, but dads have a critical role to play. What is that role? And how do you encourage your partner to step into that role? When a man is unsure of how to talk about emotions with his children, what should he say? What if he doesn’t want to talk about them with anyone? In this episode, we get raw and deep reflecting on the men most dear to us.How do we raise boys that have the permission and the know-how to connect with others? And how do we help them now become the available and emotionally literate dads of tomorrow? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

53 min listen

Let Your Kids Fail; Don't Let Your Kids Drown: Teens & Homework Coaches: Mistakes and Failures can be some of life’s best teachers. When it comes to letting our kids fail, how do we know the difference between letting them fail and letting them drown? What do you do if your teenager hasn’t mastered the skill of asking for help? Or, what do you say when your teen doesn’t even care? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

36 min listen

The 3 Patterns That Are Most Toxic In Adult Relationships by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

38 min listen

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