Of course parents should pay attention to their family’s health. But when does your worry about illness in a global pandemic become too much? How does your health anxiety impact your family? How do we educate our kids on the ways anxiety can create physical symptoms so that they know when their worry is the cause of the tummy ache?

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Our discounted room block is available until today, March 18, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

The Latest Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 6:00AM EST.

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Parents and students are focusing on college admissions earlier and earlier, hoping to get a head start on what has become an increasingly competitive race through high school. They say they want their kids to be “happy” and “successful” in college, but if parents are obsessed with getting in, are they developing the right skills to help them thrive once there? Anxiety Expert and therapist Lynn Lyons shares her perspective after treating teens for decades through this process and well after.

We invite you to listen (or re-listen!) to our prior episode, "High Anxiety & Good Grades: Our Toxic Achievement Culture".

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Our discounted room block is available until today, March 11, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 6:00AM EST.

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As we find ourselves struggling to process such horrific news, how do we help our children understand it? Once again we must deal with our own big emotions and theirs during a time of great uncertainty. Lynn offers some guidance from little kids to teens as we love them through it and our own anxiety.

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Discounted rooms available until March 11, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 5:00AM EST.

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It's time for a new Flusterclux In Session episode where anxiety expert Lynn Lyons shares a consultation with a listener. Lynn talks to mom of three, Erica, whose youngest son has developed OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Lynn gives Erica tools not just for her nine-year-old son but for the whole family to be united in managing this very common disorder.

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Discounted rooms available until March 1, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 5:00AM EST.

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In the second of a two-part episode, we complete a list of four common traps in which parents get stuck. While we can face many unique challenges to parenting if we are divorced, single by choice, raising kids with special needs or facing chronic illnesses, it's helpful to understand when a custom approach to anxiety is needed.

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Discounted rooms available until March 1, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 5:00AM EST.

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It’s so easy to step into the parenting traps that feed anxiety and worry. We’ve all done them, so you’re in good company. In this episode we look at the patterns of inconsistency, trying to control outcomes because of our own worry. And we unpack the important distinction between emotional availability and emotional enmeshment. 

We also reference a past episode focusing on reassurance. 

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open. Discounted rooms available until March 1, 2022.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you know anyone who has a tendency to faint? Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons talks about her own experience with vasovagal syncope, a condition shared by her father, siblings, and son. Learn how she manages it, and how she helped her son. And enjoy the many laughs about our family’s most embarrassing fainting moments.

Lynn references this video of a talk she gave about her own history of fainting and overcoming it. 

We also reference a a listener episode of 

Flusterclux Retreat for Parents And Teens

Registration Open!

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST.

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It's time for a new Flusterclux In Session episode where anxiety expert Lynn Lyons offers a listener consultation. Hear from Mom Becky who is worried about her anxious 16 year old daughter. Becky is thinking ahead and wondering how to prepare her kind, sensitive daughter to take the next steps toward college. Social anxiety and a traumatic event have teamed up to shut this teenager down from seeking social connection. Lynn guides this mom out of her own worry and reframes her daughter’s strengths to get them both moving forward.

Lynn references this video of a talk she gave about her own history of fainting and overcoming it. 

She also references a past Flusterclux episode of a family overcoming a traumatic event.

Registration Opens January 29th at 12pm EST.

Equipping Teens To Launch: The Connections, Conversations, and Skills Families Need

Specifically for families with teens aged 13-19, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson of Flusterclux will present a full day of programming on Saturday, April 9th, 2022, from 9am until 5pm at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, Vermont. 

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST.

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Rage. As we all grieve for a pre-pandemic world, we feel a lot of rage with our sadness. Anxiety expert and therapist Lynn Lyons talks about why we collectively feel anger and brings it home to our family and children. How do you help your children through outbursts? How do you raise kids who don't have outbursts as an adult? How do you manage your own rage?

Flusterclux Retreat on Parenting Teens

Save the date for the weekend of April 9th! Join the Facebook group for first access to information and registration coming this month! The retreat will be held at the Woodstock Inn in Vermont. Registration will go live soon!

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Burnout. It's certainly a word we're hearing frequently, particularly in those who work in healthcare and education. But because burnout is often specific to the role of caring for others, there's a reason why parents feel burnout, too. We unpack burnout, what helps and what makes it worse. 

Flusterclux Retreat on Parenting Teens

Save the date for the weekend of April 9th! Join the Facebook group for first access to information and registration coming this month! The retreat will be held at the Woodstock Inn in Vermont. Registration will go live soon!

NEW Course for Parents!

This self-paced course covers the core tools a family needs to manage their anxiety, the same principles Lynn teaches to families in her private practice.

This course includes 6 video modules from Lynn Lyons, LICSW, and 9 additional Q&A videos from Lynn and Robin of Flusterclux.

What you'll get:

Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids.

Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram.

Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube.

New episodes arrive Friday at 12:00AM EST.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices