Happier Family Travel: Managing Anxiety Around Packing, Planning, and Flying
A listener asks about “packing anxiety,” frustrated that dread of packing makes her dread the actual trip. Robin has all sorts of packing ti...
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Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry
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...
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Flusterclux Quarterlife: Maxing Too Much - What the Pursuit of Being the Best Actually Gets You
We live in a culture hyper focused on maximization. From profit to facial profile the internet has turbocharged the mantra of more. Now, eve...
Cornell Takeaway: Teaching Our Kids To Stand Up To Social Pressure, Not Stand By
Based on recent current events, Lynn and Robin talk directly about the skills we can teach to raise children who stand up instead of stand b...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: Bed Rotting is Worse Than You Think
Bed Rotting is something more than a quarter of Gen Z do on a regular basis. Lounging for hours on end with nothing but screens and takeout...
The Most Important Skills You Teach Your Kids When You Aren’t Even Trying
You are still your kid’s most influential teacher by how you model your emotions. What are your kids learning about blame, frustration, acco...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: You Don't Have a Hormonal Imbalance
Today’s guest is Dr. Emily Lyons! Emily is here to help dispel the myths around buzzwords like Hormonal and Chemical Imbalance, Nervous Syst...
How to Spot OCD In Your Child: Pay Attention to These Early Signs
OCD frequently shows up in childhood, especially in families where OCD already exists. Lynn and Robin talk specifically about how to spot th...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: What Gen Z's Curiosity Crisis is Costing Them
We have a guest! Join Lynn and Brackett as they talk with author, professor, and good friend Karen Shepard about Creativity, Writing, Artifi...
Is Your Kid's School Making Their Anxiety Worse?
A listener has reason to feel proud about how well she and her husband have managed their son’s anxiety at home. But the well-meaning teache...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: Why Venting Gets You Nowhere
Venting can feel great. Sometimes you just have to get something out of your system, right? Wrong. Much like scratching the itchy mosquito b...
Couples Therapist Michele Weiner-Davis Warns About the Trend of Family Estrangement
Family estrangement has become a hot topic, so on this episode we are joined again by therapist extraordinaire Michele Weiner-Davis. Michele...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: The Jelly Bean Theory
Have you ever felt like you were giving too much of your time and energy to a person that just wasn’t worth it? Or that you were drained jus...
When Your Child Says BIG Things That Freak You Out
How do we respond to our children when they say things that can upset us or take us by surprise? Lynn shares how saying less and staying cal...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: Are Gen Z Bad Workers?
Generation Z are getting their footing in the workforce, but do they want to work? In this episode Lynn asks Brackett about the attributes t...
Managing Your Kid's Legit Worries (Not Monsters Under the Bed)
A listener had a question: how do I help my six year old son be less afraid of bears at night when bears have been invading our neighbors’ h...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: How Anxiety Works and How to Stop It
This episode is all about Anxiety! Lynn is one of the leading experts on Anxiety in the United States and in this episode she explains what...
Can We Handle Other Emotions Like We Handle Worry?
A mom who has been successfully using Lynn’s skills with her anxious daughter wants to know if she can use the same externalizing and naming...
Is "Sensory Overload" a Thing? Do Nervous Systems Get Overstimulated?
Have you ever felt overstimulated? So much so that you’ve had to stop what you were doing or leave the space? Do you feel like you’re often...
Teaching Kids How to Ask For & Receive Help
How do your kids ask for help? How do you treat those that are helping you? We all find ourselves in the positions of both needing and offer...
Flusterclux Quarterlife: Imposter Syndrome is... a good thing?
Imposter syndrome is something the vast majority of us deal with. But is it actually there to help us? Lynn brings her expertise and researc...