When You Realize Your Parenting May Have Caused Your Child’s Anxiety
Steps to healing and repair
7 min readOct 31, 2023
In my parenting journey, the more I’ve learned about nervous system regulation, the more I’ve realized that my own dysregulation and some of my parenting strategies actually contributed to my son’s anxiety. I’ve had moments of despair with those realizations, and I hear from a lot of parents who…