Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children Kindle Edition

This book was recommended to me in a peaceful parenting group. I had finally realized that my daughters rigidity was due to anxiety not her just being “difficult”. It broke my heart since I know what living with anxiety is like and didn’t want that for her. I tried and failed to do things to help her. This book was an amazing resource to explain why what I was doing wasn’t working and what I could do instead. I started implementing the suggestions in this book during the summer and could not be happier with the change in both my daughter and I. There is a drastic decrease in stand offs and meltdowns (from both of us!). I am so grateful for the positive changes this book has brought to our home. Even my four year old has used the strategies to calm herself down....just from hearing the conversations between my older daughter and I! I feel like we can breathe again! I can’t recommend it enough!

I've recently started seeing kids for anxiety in my psychotherapy practice, and I have a 9 year old who has anxiety. GET THIS BOOK. I became interested when I participated in an anxiety certification in which Lynn Lyons presented. She's insightful, honest, and offers clear guidance about how to help parents and kids work together to overcome anxiety. There's no judgement in the book, just identifying likely scenarios (that I recognized in my own experience) and ways to move into managing anxiety from high-jacking your lives.

The book has very good suggestions for both children AND adults. I wish I could have read it before I had children. Having taught elementary school for 7 years before starting our family, I thought I was well prepared but having your own is just not the same. Children are all so different. This book is helping me to relate to my grandchildren and my grown children.

I am learning so much about myself and my children as I read this. It is written from honest, highly educated psychologists who share years of experience. The most helpful piece and every chapter is the way they explained there are many clients whom have dealt with so many similar issues. Everything is coming from first-hand knowledge and dealing with people, so their words carry a lot of weight! Incredible learning experience for us to grow away from rut of anxiety!

Between intensive therapy and this book, which her therapist recommended, my daughter and I are getting our lives back! Anxiety has systematically been wrecking everything, but we are getting over things and I’ve never felt more encouraged and excited! This is a wonderful system for dealing with anxiety and phobias, easy to understand, and actually fun to implement. Our lives were at a complete standstill, but this book and her wonderful therapist have brought back the sunshine and happiness. Highly recommend!!!!

Having a history of anxiety and a 13 year old that has been experiencing it, this book is perfect. It's given me clear ways to speak about anxiety, and how we both can handle it. It's given me such hope that he and I will happily leave our "what if's" behind. I feel I have great strategies to guide him through this. I've recommended it to several parents. Thank you for an excellent resource. Glad to know I was doing somethings right and can correct my "talking points" to my son and myself for the future.

I've only read the first couple of chapters to help my 5yo with some extreme anxiety over getting sick. It helped immediately, I haven't even needed to finish the book. As it is meant to be used for older children, I'm sure I'll be referring to it again in the future.

These strategies can be used for successful ‘treatment’ of anxiety in children and adults in a relatively short period of time. It just so happens they are also a road map for a successful approach to an independent, competent and happy life.

This is a great book to make you realise you e been doing everything wrong but at least gives you some good tips on how to fix all the damage you've done during your child's formative years.

This book is amazing I am a Counsellor and have hundreds of books but this is one of my favouritesI use it regularly and have bought spares to share with parents of clients

Excellent book for parents and kids. It's changed how I deal with the anxiety my child has and she really enjoyed 'Casey's book'. I have read quite a few books on the subject and I thoroughly recommend this one.

Superb book.

Exactly what I was looking for. Dealing with the challenges of parents and children's anxieties together...