Helping Our Anxious Kids

In this episode, Lauren Edmunds explores how anxiety shows up in children and why no learning can happen when a child’s nervous system is in fight, flight, freeze or fawn.

She explains why anxious children first need to feel safe, not just be safe. She also warns that a calm, controlled environment on its own won’t prepare them for life.

She draws on Michael Singer’s image of a bird resting on a calm ocean. Then she shows how practising skills like breathwork and grounding during calm moments, and modelling them as a regulated adult, helps children manage anxiety when the waves inevitably come.