Help! My Child's Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety

Parenting an anxious child makes parents anxious. When your child feels anxiety, panic, worry or sadness, it makes you feel anxious, panicked, worried or sad too. If you are fearful or overwhelmed, it can be difficult to support your child, even though all you want to do is make them feel better. This book supplies parents with simple, practical steps to manage not only their child's anxiety but their own. When helping children with anxiety, it is crucial that the child feels the parent knows what they need and is capable of providing it. When parents experience feelings of inadequacy, the child senses this and it adds to the sensation of chaos and panic. Thus, parent and child are both stuck, both feel no-one is coming to the rescue - which is where this book provides a lifeline. Parents will learn what is going on in their child's brain and body when anxiety strikes. This book is full of practical advice and delivers clear spoken scripts for parents to follow during vital conversations supporting their anxious child. It also sets out hundreds of practical dynamic strategies to restore the child's happiness and security, all based on real cases studies taken from personal therapeutic casework with hundreds of children in the years since Covid. This book offers advice, reassurance and a helping hand, with a wide range options designed to fit each family's specific requirements, replenish confidence and put the positivity and pleasure back into parenting.