Anxiety
Recognizing Teens and Anxiety Issues Early
Recognizing Anxiety Wouldn’t it be great to be a kid again? No 9-to-5 job, no taxes to file, no bills, no one else to worry about. To top all that off, you get to sleep in on the weekends and have meals prepared for you every night. We all know how stressful adult life can…
Read MoreTips For Helping Connect With Your Anxious Teen Girls
Teen Girls and Anxiety The teenage years are a time of rapid and exponential growth. During this time, teens are figuring out independence and self-agency, time management, platonic and romantic relationships, where their place is in the world, and self-discovering who they are and want to become, all while their hormones are charging developing minds.…
Read MoreUnder Pressure: Helping your daughter cope with teen stress
Can you imagine being a teen today? Probably not. Beginning in elementary school, young people are expected to follow a specific track- one that leads to higher education, success, and a good job. Because of this, teen stress can seem almost unbearable. Guiding your teen through this stress is important because teen stress can turn…
Read MoreHow Anxiety Shows Up in Adolescent Girls and How To Help
Anxiety in adolescent girls may present in a number of ways. Young girls often cannot identify their feelings. Anxiety might be felt as jitteriness, a sick stomach, excessive worry, headaches, sleeplessness, nightmares, or general feelings of not being well. While older girls may experience anxiety internally and express their concerns verbally, younger girls tend to…
Read MoreAnimal Therapy Helps Teen Girls with Anxiety
Many of the girls that we work with struggle with social anxiety and developing close relationships with peers and staff, but are uniquely skilled at connecting with animals. Relationships with animals may not involve two-sided heart-to-hearts, but are a great way for girls to learn nonverbal social skills and self-regulation when around others. At Asheville…
Read MoreParents’ Anxiety Influences Anxiety In Children
Family history is known to be a contributing factor to anxiety disorders. If someone in your family struggles with anxiety, your child is more at risk for developing an anxiety disorder. While adults learn to manage their anxiety, childhood anxiety tends to be intensified. As they learn more about the world, their generally anxious temperament…
Read MoreDifferentiating between Fear and Anxiety in Teens
Our society often uses fear and anxiety interchangeably, although this is not always appropriate. Anxiety and fear may be interrelated, but these feelings arise for different reasons. While fear can be an adaptive response to stress, anxiety can lead to depression, low self-esteem, and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Differentiating between fear and anxiety helps teens determine…
Read MoreMiddle School Anxiety: Alleviating Fears about The Middle School Transition
Very few people look back on their middle school years fondly, as it is a difficult transition socially and academically. Going from specific classrooms to class changes opens the doors for new relationships and cliques to forms. Most middle schoolers are concerned about “fitting in” at their new schools. When new middle schoolers get a…
Read More5 Ways to Help Your Anxious Middle School Daughter Persevere
Anxiety and depression are characterized by self-doubt and hopelessness for one’s future, which impacts one’s ability to be make concrete goals about what they want in life. It is hard enough for your anxious middle school daughter to trust that she can make it through a day at school, let alone think about high school…
Read MoreSupporting Your Middle School Daughter with Social Anxiety and Depression
While anxiety is a normal response to stressful events, a main source of anxiety for teenage girls is being anxious about being anxious and feeling like they are alone in their experience. Girls suffer more from depression and anxiety than boys because they tend to internalize problems and social expectations of being kind, generous, obedient,…
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