You need to take steps, even baby steps, to address the worry and to retrain your brain. And by putting it in its place, this means you have to "lean in" to the worry. The goal is to now put your worry in its place.Give it a name (for example, let's say I'm afraid of spiders I would try to picture my worry as a cartoon spider and name it Charlotte). We don't learn to recover from our worry. The more we therefore avoid a worry, the more we train our brains that that is the only way of managing.Our adrenaline kicks in, we might not feel well, and we want to avoid that worry in order to feel better. This is where our brain has the "fight or flight" response. When our worry gets more extreme, it gets sent to the amygdala.It doesn't work to tell them to go away or "not worry". Worries exist like all other thoughts in our prefrontal cortex. In order to share the message with parents, and promote conversations at home, here are some of her major points: Her message resonated with students, as we all get worried about different things from time to time! The goal of her presentation was to give students a toolbox for managing their worries. This past Thursday, Lynn Lyons spoke with our entire student body about managing worry or anxiety.
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