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PEP Talks brings you a new series where guests "Go First" in talking about their own experiences with an adversity or mental health challenge. In our inaugural Go First episode, PEP Talks co-host Erin Williams describes  her experience with lifelong anxiety. What began in childhood has continued throughout her life, as a professional, daughter and even in motherhood as she deals with postpartum anxiety.

Erin gives her go-to tools for in-the-moment anxiety and practical preventative measures she uses to proactively regulate herself, such as deep breathing, talking with safe people, therapy, journaling and managing her lifestyle through exercise, sleep and nutrition. She also discusses simple tools for "checking in" and ways parents can validate and reassure their anxious children.

Erin's Personal Recommended Resources for Anxiety:

• Building a Non Anxious Life (Book)
• The Body Keeps the Score (Book)
• Breathing Techniques
• Therapist Approved Natural Remedies for Anxiety

Recommended Tools & Strategies for Children:

• Coping Skills for Kids on Calming Anxiety: Strategies, Skill Building, and Books
• 10 Grounding Activities by Counselor Keri
• 39 Journal Prompts for Teens with Anxiety

Let us know what you thought about our Go First series! Email us at: [email protected]