Here’s the secret ingredients to getting through those tricky high anxiety moments with your child.

Here’s the secret ingredients to getting through those tricky high anxiety moments with your child.

⭐️Be the calmest person in the room⭐️

Dial down your emotional temperature. Take a breath yourself, remind yourself that their response has nothing to do with you and prepare to calmly engage with your child.

⭐️Speak less⭐️

Your child’s rational decision making capabilities have gone offline. The only thing functioning for them during high anxiety is their fight/flight/freeze response. They cannot hear you, and speaking to them will not slow down their fears.

Your worry does not scare me. We will get through this together. I can hold this space with you.

⭐️Regulate⭐️

Support your child in slowing down the physiological response from anxiety.

Engage in diaphragmatic breathing. 20 seconds of slow inhales and exhales is all it takes to signal to the brain that it can call off the cavalry and begin resetting.

Utilize mindfulness. Try the 5-4-3-2-1 method to engage their senses and take them out of the anxious response.

⭐️Remember⭐️

Anxiety is temporary. Even though it is high at that moment, it will come down.

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