Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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How to Spot OCD In Your Child: Pay Attention to These Early Signs
2026-10-09 | 32 mins.
OCD frequently shows up in childhood, especially in families where OCD already exists. Lynn and Robin talk specifically about how to spot the warnings, the difference between toddler routines and OCD rituals, and the steps to take when the signs are there. (Hint: get input from an OCD specialist.)

Resources discussed on today's show:

https://www.dawnhuebnerphd.com/overcoming-ocd/

https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/ocd-treatment-guide/space/

https://anxieties.com/

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For those brand new to the podcast, we suggest starting with this playlist featuring Lynn Lyons and the 7-part anxiety disruptor series as well as a 3-part series on the skills most helpful in managing anxious kids: flexibility, problem solving, and autonomy.

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Flusterclux Quarterlife: What Gen Z's Curiosity Crisis is Costing Them
2026-10-07 | 46 mins.
We have a guest! Join Lynn and Brackett as they talk with author, professor, and good friend Karen Shepard about Creativity, Writing, Artificial Intelligence, Culture, and more!
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Is Your Kid's School Making Their Anxiety Worse?
2026-10-02 | 27 mins.
A listener has reason to feel proud about how well she and her husband have managed their son’s anxiety at home. But the well-meaning teachers at school have historically continued to support avoidance. The parents want to partner with the school and make sure the approach to the anxiety this year is consistent. Unlimited “calm down breaks” and removal of challenges? Nope. So how can they get everyone on board?

WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON SPECIFIC TOPICS.

Here is our first:

For those brand new to the podcast, we suggest starting with this playlist featuring Lynn Lyons and the 7-part anxiety disruptor series as well as a 3-part series on the skills most helpful in managing anxious kids: flexibility, problem solving, and autonomy.

Consult our Spotify profile for the most up-to-date selection.

We will select two listeners who complete our listener survey. We hope it is you!

FOLLOW US

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.
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Flusterclux Quarterlife: Why Venting Gets You Nowhere
2026-09-29 | 32 mins.
Venting can feel great. Sometimes you just have to get something out of your system, right? Wrong. Much like scratching the itchy mosquito bite, venting can actually make things worse in the long term and become a habit that’s hard to kick.
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Couples Therapist Michele Weiner-Davis Warns About the Trend of Family Estrangement
2026-09-25 | 53 mins.
Family estrangement has become a hot topic, so on this episode we are joined again by therapist extraordinaire Michele Weiner-Davis. Michele’s take on this tough subject combines 50 years of clinical expertise and her own family’s painful experience with estrangement. This one is not to be missed.

WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON SPECIFIC TOPICS.

Here is our first:

For those brand new to the podcast, we suggest starting with this playlist featuring Lynn Lyons and the 7-part anxiety disruptor series as well as a 3-part series on the skills most helpful in managing anxious kids: flexibility, problem solving, and autonomy.

Consult our Spotify profile for the most up-to-date selection.

We will select two listeners who complete our listener survey. We hope it is you!

FOLLOW US

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.

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

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About Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

Parenting isn't easy, and it's normal to worry. Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-hosts sister-in-law Robin Hutson and brother Ed Gerwig in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advice without the psychobabble. Since 2020, they've been talking about anxiety and worry, their love for Mr. Rogers, and the crazy things the mental health field gets WRONG about anxiety. Anxiety Expert Lynn Lyons has been a therapist for over 35 years. She's an author of 3 books with a new one coming out in October and has traveled around the US and Canada training hundreds of audiences teachers, school nurses, counselors and parents about managing anxiety. Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm. Each episode is filled with practical advice for parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness. Lynn answers listener questions and gives parents concrete strategies for developing the traits that are their kids' best defenses against anxiety and depression later in life: flexibility, resilience, autonomy, and problem solving. New episodes every Friday at 5AM EST. Find us at flusterclux.com https://www.facebook.com/flusterclux https://www.instagram.com/flusterclux/

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