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Understanding Separation Anxiety

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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Responding to Your Child's Needs Is Not Caving and It's in Their Best Interest and That's Why You Walk Away

responding to their needs does not mean caving and giving them what they want all the time no no it doesn't foster kind of manipulative behavior especially when it's a very genuine upset. You are showing them that the world is safe you know people respond to my needs and they download that into their nervous system whereas if you were occasionally leave a child that's genuinely obsessed obsessed and ignore it they download this idea that the world isn't safeNobody like people aren't listening to my my feelings maybe I'll shut them down or maybe I'll act out even more um so yeah and sometimes we need to differentiate between that genuine upset and that  when kids get older sometimes they can it might not be

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