Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry
Lynn Lyons LICSW, Robin Hutson
Parenting isn't easy, and it's normal to worry. Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-hosts sister-in-law Robin Hutson and brother Ed Gerwig in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advice without the psychobabble. Since 2020, they've been talking about anxiety and worry, their love for Mr. Rogers, and the crazy things the mental health field gets WRONG about anxiety.
Anxiety Expert Lynn Lyons has been a therapist for over 35 years. She's an author of 3 books with a new one coming out in October and has traveled around the US and Canada training hundreds of audiences teachers, school nurses, counselors and parents about managing anxiety.
Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm. Each episode is filled with practical advice for parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness.
Lynn answers listener questions and gives parents concrete strategies for developing the traits that are their kids' best defenses against anxiety and depression later in life: flexibility, resilience, autonomy, and problem solving. New episodes every Friday at 5AM EST.
Find us at flusterclux.com https://www.facebook.com/flusterclux https://www.instagram.com/flusterclux/
Anxiety Expert Lynn Lyons has been a therapist for over 35 years. She's an author of 3 books with a new one coming out in October and has traveled around the US and Canada training hundreds of audiences teachers, school nurses, counselors and parents about managing anxiety.
Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm. Each episode is filled with practical advice for parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness.
Lynn answers listener questions and gives parents concrete strategies for developing the traits that are their kids' best defenses against anxiety and depression later in life: flexibility, resilience, autonomy, and problem solving. New episodes every Friday at 5AM EST.
Find us at flusterclux.com https://www.facebook.com/flusterclux https://www.instagram.com/flusterclux/
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Jan 8, 2021 • 47min
Helping Kids With Shame & Self-Harm and the Parent Message in Pixar's Soul
Shame & SoulHow do you support your children who feel shame very intensely? They feel shame so intensely that it might include self harming practices. What do you say when children say "I feel no worth?" Or "I can't believe I did that," or "I'm so stupid." How do you support your children who handle their mistakes in such a way that's self-punitive, and they're unforgiving with themselves? Also, we watched the movie soul and there is a message in that movie that we want all parents to hear.26:00 Lynn and Robin discuss Pixar's latest movie Soul and the teaching opportunities in it for kids and parents.New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Don't Miss the Anxiety Audit for 2021! Register for the live workshop.Purchase the self-paced course. You can receive a $40 bundle discount for both formats, if you buy the course on the Eventbrite website at the time of registration.Therapists and school counselors, become a Flusterclux affiliate and fundraise with Lynn's courses.Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 1, 2021 • 34min
The Most Powerful Resolution: Earning a Black Belt in Emotional Management
New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Don't Miss the Anxiety Audit for 2021! Register for the live workshop.Purchase the self-paced course. You can receive a $40 bundle discount for both formats, if you buy the course on the Eventbrite website at the time of registration.Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 25, 2020 • 35min
How Silliness and Laughter Can Be Your Best Parenting Tool
Silliness has never been a more a critical parenting tool than in 2020. Here's how to use it to make manage your anxiety and make your kids feel safe. Creating "joy" with your family may sound like too much pressure, so we break it down to a few 2 minute increments of joy. And we discuss the toxic humor to avoid.New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Don't Miss the Anxiety Audit for 2021! Registration begins January 1.Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2020 • 36min
Tough Dynamics At The Holidays: Blended Families and Angry Teens
For some families, holidays bring out their toughest dynamics. How do divorced parents manage a blended holiday putting their kids first? What if you have a house of angry teenagers with one of them recently in crisis? Is it possible to enjoy your holiday at home when all they want to do is fight? The digital picture frame Lynn references is on Amazon.New episodes arrive Friday at 5:00AM EST. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 18, 2020 • 19min
Covid's Excuse: The Family You Won't Miss This Holiday
What if COVID is giving you a pass this year that relieves you? What if you're glad to miss a family holiday? One listener hates Christmas because of her overbearing and difficult mother? How do you set boundaries with your parents? And is it ever too late?Manage Your Kids' Screen TimeThe Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle. New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 16, 2020 • 29min
Santaphobia: Why Santa Freaks Some Kids Out
Santaphobia is real. Santa can freak some kids out.How do you help your child who’s afraid Santa will bring COVID into the house? How do you help the child who doesn’t want to hear anything at all about Santa?And how can the Santa story creep into toxic territory when used as a threatening or shaming tool? Do you do that? What’s a healthy way to talk about Santa?Manage Your Kids' Screen TimeThe Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle. New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 11, 2020 • 30min
Holiday Grief From COVID Chaos: A Pep Talk
What if your kids are freaking out that they can't celebrate their December holidays in the usual way this year? What if you are? Parents have an exceptional burden this year trying to make magic when they probably don't feel it. How do you manage the disappointment everyone feels and find inspiration to make the best of a situation this December?Manage Your Kids' Screen TimeThe Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle. New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Join the email list to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 4, 2020 • 29min
Social Anxiety, Teens, And A Pandemic
If you have an anxious tween or teen who didn't like joining in before, how do you support them in a pandemic with remote learning? And another parent asks about her six year old's struggles with blaming others and finding friends. What do you say to the child who says, "Nobody likes me?" Books mentioned in this episode:Playing With Anxiety by Lynn Lyons and Reid WilsonOutsmarting Worry by Dawn HuebnerDavid Gets In Trouble by David ShannonManage Your Kids' Screen TimeThe Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle. Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 29, 2020 • 54sec
Flusterclux: For Parents Who Worry
Parenting isn't easy in the best of circumstances, and 2020 has challenged every parent to support the emotional health of their kids and themselves. Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm and tells parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness.Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-host and sister-in-law Robin Hutson in a weekly podcast free of psychobabble and full of concrete advice. In each episode, Lynn answers listener questions and gives parents concrete strategies for developing the traits that are their kids' best defenses against anxiety and depression later in life: flexibility, resilience, autonomy, and problem solving.Find us at flusterclux.comJoin the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.
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Nov 27, 2020 • 44min
Unpacking your family's baggage about anger, grief, and worry
Just because your Thanksgiving table will have empty chairs this year, doesn't mean that your family's dynamics aren't with you.What did you learn about handling anger, sadness, and worry as a child from your family? How does that affect your parenting? We unpack our family baggage in this episode to see how we can stop dysfunctional generational patterns and give our kids the space for healthy feelings.This is an updated version of a previous episode (#10) about three of the most powerful patterns that shape not just our relationships with our families, partners, children, and friends but the world outside our homes.Lynn walks us through the very big sweet spot where we want to be modeling for our kids healthy emotional management and examples of the extremes to avoid. Manage Your Kids' Screen TimeThe Circle lets you set daily limits for different apps and social media. It also controls your kid's Wi Fi schedules, and you can adjust age appropriate filters for searches from little kids to teens. Our affiliate link will get you $20 off a Circle. Join the Flusterclux Facebook group so that you can ask your question on a future episode.New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
