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Episode 2. The Parent in The Consulting Room, The Anxious Parent
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Your child goes quiet for a second and your body tightens before anything even happens. That moment can feel like intuition, but it’s often anxiety at work. I’m Kim Lee Child, an adolescent psychotherapist, and I’m naming a pattern many parents live with privately: the shift from watching your child to scanning them for danger, searching faces and tones for proof that something is wrong.
We dig into what parenting anxiety actually is. It’s not simply overprotectiveness or being “too much.” It’s anticipation, a mind and nervous system preparing for harm, usually because safety…
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