Navigating Teenage Anxiety: Insights and Strategies | Christy Boulware | Episode 311

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Author and speaker Christy Boulware joins Blake to discuss teenage anxiety and mental health. The conversation centers on how anxiety manifests differently in teenagers compared to adults, highlighting symptoms such as insomnia, headaches, stomachaches, and a tendency to isolate. Both Blake and Christy share their personal experiences with anxiety from childhood through adulthood, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and addressing anxiety in teenagers. They also stress the critical role parents play in having open and honest conversations with their children about mental health, aiming to equip both parents and teens with tools to navigate anxiety effectively. In this episode, you’ll be able to… Gain insights into how anxiety manifests differently in teens compared to adults, including common symptoms and behaviors to look out for. Learn about specific physical and emotional indicators, such as insomnia, headaches, stomach aches, isolation, and increased comparison behaviors. Discover practical techniques for helping your child manage anxiety, including the importance of having open conversations and providing a balance of space and support. Christy is the author of Nervous Breakthrough – available everywhere now! To connect with Christy… Website: christyboulware.com Instagram: @christymboulware Facebook: @christy.boulware Podcast: Fearless Tips & Talks Sponsors Link: Our Place - Promo Code "BLAKE" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a
0:09.7	misfit media network production. I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Bla this about all the things most Christians are still not sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:24.0	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap
0:27.5	and for someone to just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life
0:32.0	when you've come to the right place.
0:34.2	Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come hang out with me and
0:38.8	a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.
0:42.6	I am so excited when I get to have a repeat guess. Like that's how you know it was good,
0:54.1	because I'm not gonna lie I can be a little picky
0:55.8	about who I'm gonna have on the podcast.
0:57.8	Christie emailed me.
0:59.4	I think the title of your email was maybe again.
1:02.3	I think my email back was easiest yes, easiest yes.
1:06.5	I feel like I consider you a friend, like you're an internet friend at this point and I remember
1:10.8	at the end of our last conversation being like we could have talked for another hour.
1:14.0	So we're going to go ahead and do that now. I love it. Let's do it. So your book, we were talking about this before we recorded, it came out when, remind me when it came out a year ago.
1:25.8	Yes, yeah, April of last year, with no audio contract.
1:30.4	Right, okay, so no contract at all, nothing. And so then they come back around and want to do an
1:36.1	audio book, which if you're not in this industry like that is so abnormal.
1:41.3	It really is so I feel like I'm re-releasing the book a year later but I get to focus on the
1:48.3	audio part of it and so my maybe again was just like, hey Blake,
1:53.0	I kind of want to talk about teenage anxiety.
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