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When a child is mired in overthinking, they lose the sense of being capable.

Overthinking takes over children's brains with thoughts like, "What if I do this wrong?"

The goal is to raise children who relate differently to their worries through boundaries and redirection.

You are at your wits' end after reassuring, coaxing, encouraging, and telling your child or teen they know how to do what they aren't doing. Your child still stalls at the starting line. Simple homework assignments are met with agony. Even small decisions seem overwhelming in your child's mind. They keep asking the same questions, and you are exasperated because your answers and reassurance just are not helping.

From the outside, this easily looks like defiance, procrastination, or a good old-fashioned lack of caring and effort. But within your child's unsettled, spinning........

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