7 Sneaky Ways Anxiety Takes Over
Everyone has experienced a pile-up of life stressors from time to time! Sometimes life happens and it feels like all the emotional energy you have gets sucked out. It can feel like you’re running on an empty tank. Running out of emotional fuel – and sometimes physical energy too! It can leave you feeling run-down, […]
5 Ways Kids Show Coronavirus Anxiety
It’s safe to say that COVID-19 has changed day to day lives for everyone – adults and children – across the United States and around the world. The way we live is just different now than it was before the pandemic. Children’s lives were disrupted with the closing of schools in the spring – for […]
Blog: Anxiety in Kids During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 has turned the lives upside down around the whole world. Schools have closed for the remainder of the school year, restaurants, stores, and other businesses forced to close. Countless jobs and businesses lost, unable to recover from mandatory closures. Parents having to work from home, while often their children are having to do […]
How Anxiety Shows Up At School And Why It often Is Hard To Recognize
Anxiety in schools is a widespread concern and impacts as much as 25% of children, according to recent research. It is easy to spot when kids express worries, fears, or being nervous about a test or project. Most of the time, it’s not so obvious. Kids present anxiety in a number of different ways that […]
School is Starting Back Up … Are Kids OK During Remote Learning?
Here we are in the fall of 2020, many months after the beginning of the unexpected turn of events caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’re like most people, you were probably hoping that life would begin to return to normal sometime over the course of the summer and that our kids would be returning […]
Got 20 Minutes? Lower Your Stress and Anxiety With These 10 Exercises!
Do you feel like a muddy puddle on a cloudy day? Anxiety and stress make you feel that way. Take twenty minutes to try one of these ten exercises. It will clear up your puddle and let in some sunshine. Each of these exercises targets one of three areas: your fears, avoidance, or bodily tension. […]
When to worry about your teen’s anxiety
Let’s play a game. I’m going to describe a scenario and I want you to imagine yourself in that situation. Think about 1) how you would feel in that moment and 2) how that circumstance would impact your life. Scenario 1: While out running errands, you lost your smartphone. You returned to the store but it was […]
7 tips to help lower your kids and teens anxiety
The world has always been a bustling place. But recent events and technological advances have amped up anxiety to a new level. World pandemic, canceled schools, declining economies, rampant media, and a world slowly trying to return to normal. Anxiety easily creeps–for you as a parent and for your kids and teens. Young ones may […]
Social Anxiety in Teens
Please don’t call on me to say the answer in front of the entire class. My heart is beating too fast to speak. I dread the first day of school because every teacher makes you go around the room and say your name. I get so nervous that I want to throw up. There’s no […]
2 Questions to See If Social Media Use Effects Your Social Anxiety.
Let’s play a game. I’m going to describe a scenario and I want you to imagine yourself in that situation. Think about 1) how you would feel in that moment and 2) how that circumstance would impact your life. Scenario 1: While out running errands, you lost your smartphone. You returned to the store but it was […]