Anxiety And The Caring Parent

Inside The Consulting Room - Understanding the Child Behind the Behaviour · Feb 19, 2026 · 11m · transcript

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We explore how parental anxiety lives in the body, why it persists even when life looks fine, and how it shapes the parent–child loop. We offer body-first tools that restore calm, teach safety, and model recovery instead of perfection.

• persistent anxiety as a body state, not a flaw

• amygdala sensitivity and narrowed prefrontal reasoning

• sympathetic activation, high-chest breathing, and fatigue

• co-regulation and how urgency transmits between parent and child

• breathing with longer exhales to engage the vagus nerve

• grounding from what if to what is with sensory cues

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