Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Pare...

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-host and sister-in-law Robin Hutson in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advice without the psychobabble. At the beginning of the pandemic, Lynn and Robin started the Flusterclux podcast when their parenting retreats went on hiatus, and they're now 2 years in, 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 30 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.

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Kids & Family
Parenting
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The 7 Anxiety Disruptors for Families: #5 When ...
26 min
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Best Of: How To Manage Your Kids' Phobias
34 min
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Best of Summer Episode: How to Take a Vacay fro...
15 min
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The 7 Anxiety Disruptors For Families: #4 The C...
26 min
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When You Feel Rage at the World
44 min
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The 7 Anxiety Disruptors For Families: #3 get u...
43 min
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The 7 Anxiety Disruptors For Families: #2 How t...
26 min
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Best of Summer Episodes: Summer Camp & Separati...
40 min
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The 7 Essential Anxiety Disruptors For Families...
22 min
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The Skills of Connection Every Kid (and Adult) ...
Friendships and connection sustain us, but that doesn’t mean they’re always smooth or come naturally. In this episode, Lynn and Robin talk about the ways we can help foster the skills of connection, how to support our kids and teens as they navigate friendships, and why Lynn will never go on another girls weekend.
48 min
136
What You Really Need To Know About Tracking You...
Anxiety loves certainty about where our kids are, but it comes with a price.
38 min
137
Here’s How Anxiety Sneaks Into Your Marriage
What role does anxiety play in your marriage?
43 min
138
The Uncomfortable Truth About the Mom Wine Culture
39 min
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Separation Anxiety: How Parents Can Manage It A...
Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons talks to a listener about her 6 year old with separation anxiety. This family has been working hard on their own and with a therapist to get their daughter comfortable being away from mommy. This is a very common issue and one of the first patterns of anxiety to appear developmentally. Learn how to manage these situations and conversations with your young children and how to talk to their teachers to get everyone on the same team against letting anxiety be in charge.
42 min
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How to Know If Your Kid Has Sensory or Anxiety ...
40 min
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Your Parents' Anxiety: How to Lessen Their Impa...
37 min
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Helping Your Kids With Self-Hatred and Self-Blame
41 min
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Pixar's Turning Red and Inside Out: How These M...
Pop culture, from Mr. Rogers to Disney Pixar movies, has the power of story to teach us all…when it’s used this well.
42 min
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How to Manage Your Anxiety and Your Child’s Chr...
On this Flusterclux In Session episode, anxiety expert Lynn Lyons talks to a mom who is managing a tricky combination of factors: her own worry, her daughter's worry, and her daughter’s chronic illness. Knowing the difference between what worry demands and how to manage a serious condition (like type 1 diabetes or anaphylaxis-causing allergies) can be hard to discern. But it’s a skill families must learn together when your child's mental and physical health are on the line.
47 min
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Hypochondria: Is Your Anxiety About Your Family...
Of course parents should pay attention to their family’s health. But when does your worry about illness in a global pandemic become too much? How does your health anxiety impact your family? How do we educate our kids on the ways anxiety can create physical symptoms so that they know when their worry is the cause of the tummy ache?
38 min
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Raising Kids Who Are Really Ready For College I...
Parents and students are focusing on college admissions earlier and earlier, hoping to get a head start on what has become an increasingly competitive race through high school. They say they want their kids to be “happy” and “successful” in college, but if parents are obsessed with getting in, are they developing the right skills to help them thrive once there? Anxiety Expert and therapist Lynn Lyons shares her perspective after treating teens for decades through this process and well after.
36 min
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Talking To Your Kids About The War In Ukraine
As we find ourselves struggling to process such horrific news, how do we help our children understand it? Once again we must deal with our own big emotions and theirs during a time of great uncertainty. Lynn offers some guidance from little kids to teens as we love them through it and our own anxiety.
21 min
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OCD in Kids: Managing Obsessive Compulsive Diso...
It's time for a new Flusterclux In Session episode where anxiety expert Lynn Lyons shares a consultation with a listener. Lynn talks to mom of three, Erica, whose youngest son has developed OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Lynn gives Erica tools not just for her nine-year-old son but for the whole family to be united in managing this very common disorder.
46 min
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Are Your Family's Anxiety Issues Unique?
In the second of a two-part episode, we complete a list of four common traps in which parents get stuck. While we can face many unique challenges to parenting if we are divorced, single by choice, raising kids with special needs or facing chronic illnesses, it's helpful to understand when a custom approach to anxiety is needed.
27 min
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These Parenting Traps Feed Anxiety and Are The ...
It’s so easy to step into the parenting traps that feed anxiety and worry. We’ve all done them, so you’re in good company. In this episode we look at the patterns of inconsistency, trying to control outcomes because of our own worry. And we unpack the important distinction between emotional availability and emotional enmeshment. 
30 min