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Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

Lynn Lyons LICSW, Robin Hutson

Parenting isn"t easy, and it"s normal to 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-hosts sister-in-law Robin Hutson and brother Ed Gerwig in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advice without the psychobabble. Since 2020, they"ve been talking about anxiety and worry, their love for Mr. Rogers, and the crazy things the mental health field gets WRONG about anxiety. Anxiety Expert

kids & family parenting

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48:34

Helping Kids With Shame & Self-Harm and the Parent...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2021/01/08

Shame & Soul How do you support your children who feel shame very intensely? They feel shame so intensely that it might include self harming practices. What do you say when children say "I feel no worth?" Or "I can't believe I did that," or "I'm so stupid." How do you support your children who handle their mistakes in such a way that's self-punitive, and they're unforgiving with themselves? Also, we watched the movie soul and there is a message in that movie that we want all parents to hear. 26:00

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36:10

The Most Powerful Resolution: Earning a Black Belt in...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2021/01/01

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Don't Miss the Anxiety Audit for 2021! Register for the live workshop. Purchase the self-paced course. You can receive a $40 bundle discount for both formats, if you buy the course on the Eventbrite website at the time of registration. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids. Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and

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36:53

How Silliness and Laughter Can Be Your Best Parenting...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/25

Silliness has never been a more a critical parenting tool than in 2020. Here's how to use it to make manage your anxiety and make your kids feel safe. Creating "joy" with your family may sound like too much pressure, so we break it down to a few 2 minute increments of joy. And we discuss the toxic humor to avoid. New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Don't Miss the Anxiety Audit for 2021! Registration begins January 1. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens,

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38:15

Tough Dynamics At The Holidays: Blended Families and...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/22

For some families, holidays bring out their toughest dynamics. How do divorced parents manage a blended holiday putting their kids first? What if you have a house of angry teenagers with one of them recently in crisis? Is it possible to enjoy your holiday at home when all they want to do is fight? The digital picture frame Lynn references is on Amazon. New episodes arrive Friday at 5:00AM EST. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids. Join the

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19:56

Covid's Excuse: The Family You Won't Miss This Holiday

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/18

What if COVID is giving you a pass this year that relieves you? What if you're glad to miss a family holiday? One listener hates Christmas because of her overbearing and difficult mother? How do you set boundaries with your parents? And is it ever too late? Manage Your Kids' Screen Time The Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate

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31:26

Santaphobia: Why Santa Freaks Some Kids Out

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/16

Santaphobia is real. Santa can freak some kids out. How do you help your child who’s afraid Santa will bring COVID into the house? How do you help the child who doesn’t want to hear anything at all about Santa? And how can the Santa story creep into toxic territory when used as a threatening or shaming tool? Do you do that? What’s a healthy way to talk about Santa? Manage Your Kids' Screen Time The Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi

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31:54

Holiday Grief From COVID Chaos: A Pep Talk

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/11

What if your kids are freaking out that they can't celebrate their December holidays in the usual way this year? What if you are? Parents have an exceptional burden this year trying to make magic when they probably don't feel it. How do you manage the disappointment everyone feels and find inspiration to make the best of a situation this December? Manage Your Kids' Screen Time The Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and

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31:07

Social Anxiety, Teens, And A Pandemic

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/12/04

If you have an anxious tween or teen who didn't like joining in before, how do you support them in a pandemic with remote learning? And another parent asks about her six year old's struggles with blaming others and finding friends. What do you say to the child who says, "Nobody likes me?" Books mentioned in this episode: Playing With Anxiety by Lynn Lyons and Reid Wilson Outsmarting Worry by Dawn Huebner David Gets In Trouble by David Shannon Manage Your Kids' Screen Time The Circle lets you set

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Flusterclux: For Parents Who Worry

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/11/29

Parenting isn't easy in the best of circumstances, and 2020 has challenged every parent to support the emotional health of their kids and themselves. Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm and tells parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness. 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

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45:45

Unpacking your family's baggage about anger, grief,...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/11/27

Just because your Thanksgiving table will have empty chairs this year, doesn't mean that your family's dynamics aren't with you. What did you learn about handling anger, sadness, and worry as a child from your family? How does that affect your parenting? We unpack our family baggage in this episode to see how we can stop dysfunctional generational patterns and give our kids the space for healthy feelings. This is an updated version of a previous episode (#10) about three of the most powerful

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35:28

Reassurance Traps: How to Know When Anxiety Is In...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/11/20

"It'll be okay." "Everything will be fine." "I'm right here." Our kids turned to us for reassurance, and anxious kids ask for a lot of it. When we tell them everything will be fine, it feels like the right thing to do in the moment. But is it? How does our well-meaning reassurance interfere with our children developing critical psychological skills? And what should we do instead? We'll answer that question in this week's episode of Flusterclux with Lynn Lyons, the show for real talk about worry and

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38:58

What I Wish Everyone Knew About Gratitude

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/11/13

We'll hear a lot of hype about gratitude with the holidays coming. We'll go over how gratitude is proven to help you and how you may have been thinking about it all wrong. What are gratitude's powers? And what are its limits? And one listener asks what to do for her usually studious freshman, who's suddenly indifferent to high school and grades this year. Recommended talks on gratitude Brian Doyle, 365 Days of Thank you Louie Schwartzberg, Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Laura Tice, Remember to Say

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40:39

The Physical Symptoms of Anxiety: What You Need to Know

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/11/06

Anxiety is loud and messy. And it's physical, and it brings with its diarrhea and vomiting and headaches and tummy aches and hives, and all sorts of physical symptoms that can really confuse kids and parents alike. 2:08 Robin references Lynn's video that breakdown the physical process of anxiety for kids. 19:23 The Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little

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37:41

Listeners Ask: Difficult Mothers-in-law and Middle...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/10/30

When your middle schooler is the opposite of a perfectionist— dirty hair, dirty room, indifference to academics, we discuss. And how do you parent your anxious kids in front of unsupportive in-laws? We’ll answer that question in this week’s episode of Flusterclux with Lynn Lyons, the show for real talk about worry and other big feelings in parenting. 1:01 Robin asks Lynn a question from a listener who was reacting to the perfectionism episode a few shows back. Her middle schooler is the opposite of

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42:49

How to prevent depression and understand your risk...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/10/23

Winter is coming; let's talk about how to prevent depression. While 2020 has put anxiety center stage, there are risk factors that can bring about depression, too. What are they? And if you have them, what can you do? We'll answer that question in this week's episode of Flusterclux with Lynn Lyons, the show for real talk about worry and other big feelings in parenting. 15:16 Lynn references Michael Yapko, one of her professional mentors. 29:17 Robin reads a listener question about a 13-year-old

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38:22

Election Anxiety: How Not to Scar Your Kids

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/10/16

:40 Lynn cites the American Psychological Association research, 68% of adults say currently that the election is “a significant source of stress.” 19:39 Lynn references a past episode that talks about when parents argue and model a resolution verses the vitriol of political debates among family members. 29:04 And Robin recommends all three seasons of Long Way Up starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as an antidote for election anxiety. 30:22 Lynn recommends the Dolly Parton documentary Here I

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38:17

How to Find A Good Child Therapist For Your Kid's...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/10/12

1:13 We’re going to do a progress report for students this fall. 4:04 HOW TO SUPPORT YOUNG LEARNERS THIS FALL 7:15 MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AND REMOTE LEARNING 13:01 HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, and ACADEMIC PRESSURE 17:56 Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle to manage your kids’ screen time at home. 18:22 A LISTENER QUESTION: THE CHILD THERAPIST RELATIONSHIP “I have a 17 year old daughter with general and social anxiety that is seeing a licensed mental health professional for about nine months now

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42:08

Picky Eater Kids: Preventing and Managing Food Anxiety

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/10/05

0:55 Lynn mentions an eating disorder called avoidant restrictive food intake disorder that came out in the latest edition of the DSM five, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fifth Edition of Psychiatric Diagnosis. 6:22 Robin shares a parenting hack to introduce new fruits or vegetables to young children. 8:47 Robin suggests a game called eat your face, where you take a variety of cut up fruits and vegetables to start design facial expressions. 14:06 Robin asks Lynn if picky eaters are grasping

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37:04

Parenting, Perfectionism, and Anxiety: How We Reward...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/09/28

1:09 Lynn describes the connection of perfectionism and anxiety in adults and kids she treats and suggests parents start looking at themselves and the messages around perfectionism they are sending. Robin references the book The Conscious Bride. 11:23 Lynn mentions the episode when she refers to the marital snort. 13:52 Lynn discusses the connection between perfectionism and procrastination and signs of perfectionism in children. 23:30 The Circle is what we use to manage our kids’ screen time

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43:24

How Family Laughter And Silliness Are Our Families'...

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry ·

2020/09/21

Lynn references the three prior episodes on the arc of diagnosis in anxiety and depression and what to notice in your child and what to do if you have a diagnosis and helping your child get the best treatment. 3:02 Robin mentioned in one of our first episodes the powerful that when children see us being playful, it’s telling them that they are safe— that the world is okay. 3:45 Lynn references an amazing podcast on bias with Jordan Harbinger and mentions Paul Eckman’s work on

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