Mayuri Breen Gonzalez – Anxiety in Children & Adolescents

Children often hear that anxiety is something they should get rid of. But, like all emotions, anxiety has a job.

Mayuri Breen Gonzalez – Anxiety in Children & Adolescents

What is causing Rising Childhood? Anxiety?

• The Challenges of 21st-century Living for Kids
  • Disconnection
    • Adult technology use
    • Social media
    • Distraction and stress for caregivers
  • It’s Over-Stimulation
    • Technology
    • Academic pressure
    • Expectations are changing
    • Over scheduling
    • World events

Assessing for Anxiety How can kids learn to cope with stress?

• Common Reactions Anxiety
  • Withdrawal
  • Procrastination
  • Perfectionism
  • Looking for affirmation and reassurance
  • Risques-Addiction to drugs and taking
  • Relationship difficulties
• Children already have the tools and resources they need
• Implications on mental health and long-term individual and community outcomes

Why do We Need It? Anxiety What is it trying to tell us?

• Different types of anxiety
• Anxiety And the brain-Nervous system-Body relationship
• Anxiety As necessary and functional as possible – We all have it!
  • Information for us
  • Can you help us prepare to face challenges?
• What happens when anxiety is made into a mal-adaptive?
  • Relationship between biology and mindset of the nervous system
  • Reduction in decision-making capacity
  • Increasing reactivity
  • The impact of frequent overwhelm
• Anxiety, trauma and panic
• Relationships and the role of adults in Childhood anxiety

Yoga, Mindfulness, and Resilience

• Embodied mindfulness practices increase the ability to deal with stress.
• Listening to the messages from the body
  • Recognizing early warning signs of anxiety
  • You can check it out in With my body
• Engaging and Strengthening our Inner Resources
  • Body
  • Breathe
  • Mindset

Activities to Manage Escalating Emotions & Find Equilibrium

• Grounding
  • Feeling my feet
  • Somatic Holds
• Orientation
  • Layers of sound
  • Five senses
  • Tapping
• Management of intrusive thoughts, rumination
  • A single pointed focus
  • Naming my thoughts

What to do When Anxiety Shows up: Response Strategy Skills

• Ask for help
  • Partner chair pose
• Take a break
  • Calming breath
  • Keep your legs up against the wall
• Keep trying
  • How to manage frustrations and other strong emotions
  • Standing balance
  • Chair pose

Building Agency and Personal Power for Resilience:

• Change your mindset, change your nervous system
  • The warriors
  • Finger affirmations
  • Mountain top view
• Use your power to help others
  • Three partners for the victory
  • Leadership a practice

Activities to Fight Anxiety With Connection and Attunement

• Imaginary ball pass
• Rainstorm
• Crazy 8s
• Kind wishes

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Description:

Do you have experience working with children with anxiety, or who shy away from taking part? in new activities or taking on challenges because they are afraid to fail….or you worry they’ll choose harmful coping mechanisms as they struggle with the stress of their lives?

When children can’t cope, challenges become stressors, and anxiety replaces anticipation. Our kids can’t enjoy childhood to the fullest, their learning suffers, and their long-The term resilience is compromised.

Many children believe their anxiety is something they need to push away or get rid off. However, as with all emotions, our anxiety has a job.

This recording contains the following: Mayuri Gonzalez, kids’ yoga and mindfulness expert, shows you how to teach our kids to better understand their own experience, and find effective ways to meet their needs and engage in Their lives will be lived from a place where they have personal power and agency.

These are your immediate takeaways that will benefit your students (Kids), clients, and employees.

• You should be prepared for anxiety-producing situations
• Navigate stress
• Reactivity and overwhelm can be reduced
• Participate fully in School and home
• Use their potential for self-improvement-Compassion

You’ll walk away with a new framework for relating to anxiety, along with concrete practices to help your clients and students learn to access their inner resources, calm their anxiety, transform their relationship to stress, and thrive even when life is challenging.