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How to Support an Anxious Child Without Passing on Your Own Anxiety

My eight year old daughter has anxiety attacks and I see myself in her and I do not know how to help without projecting my own fear.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental anxiety about a child's anxiety creates a feedback loop that amplifies the very condition one hopes to heal.

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