Making Sense of Anxious Children: A grounded framework for staying steady when your child isn’t
The Huddle Wisdom Podcast

The Huddle Wisdom Podcast

Hosted by: Psychiatrist and parent Dr. Davin Tan helps families support anxious children with insight, compassion, and calm.

Parenting anxious, emotionally intense, or neurodivergent kids isn’t a problem to solve but a relationship to grow. Modern parenting comes with pressure: to fix, to manage, to stay calm, to get it right. But when...

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Episode 012: 3 ideas to improve your ability to connect with people and thrive!

The key to being influential is connection. You need to be able to connect with someone before they will trust you. This is a critical skill for any business person, teacher, parent, doctor, human being. Let me tell...
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Episode 011: How to help socially anxious kids

Social anxiety is normal. But if it gets in the way of our goals, then that's something worthy of intervention. So how do we start helping our kids with this? Let's huddle! Get the FREE Toolkit for Emotional...
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Episode 010: Are you feeling stuck in a rut? Stop thinking straight! Let's talk about plateaus

If you're frustrated that you're not making any progress. Let me see if I can help you out with a couple of mental models to see if we can move the needle. I want to share a mental concept from my blog that I use when...
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Tackling the Imposter Syndrome Part 2

Hey friends. I hope you are doing well. Join me on this episode as I spend a bit of time going over some key ideas that I think will help you manage the imposter syndrome. I've expanded on what I'd said in the first...
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Episode 009: Stop blaming and complaining

How satisfying it is sometimes to find a scapegoat for bad outcomes, but how easily we change our tune when a good outcome happens! Let's see if we can play by a different set of rules and live without needing to...
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Episode 008: How do you handle your kids' backchatting?

Backchatting can be really hard to deal with. It pushes our buttons doesn't it? But here are some ideas to help us cope, manage and teach our kids better ways of dealing with stress and conflict. Take care my friendly...
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Episode 007 Explaining how your emotions can get the better of you - Lizards and Wizards

There are times when bad decisions get made during emotional upheaval. We need our wizard brain to do the thinking. What's that? Let's discuss this a bit.    I write a little more about this on the Huddle Wisdom...
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Episode 006: Stop self-limiting thoughts now!

Hey friends. Join me on another work commute! A little streams of consciousness here but I hope it makes sense, and I hope this episode encourages you and enriches you today. Sometimes we can block ourselves from...
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Episode 005: Emotional extremes. Correlates with radical thinking?

My morning musings today after hearing first hand accounts from a Victoria University professor talking about young males who were part of the COVID19 mandate protests in Wellington attempt to set fire to a building...
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Episode 004: Handling Emotional firestorms

These can be stressful, disorientating and confusing to deal with. Where do we begin? Have we got the time to figure this out? A framework would be really useful! Come join us for this episode. I know you'll find it...
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Episode 003: Road Rage Antidotes

Join me on my drive to work! As I do my best not to do any road ragey things! Fundamental Attribution Bias/error is the culprit. How do we stop it and allow us to have a much more pleasant drive to wherever we need to...
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Episode 002: Busting Unhelpful Thought Patterns

This is a follow up to last week's episode (Tackling the Imposter Syndrome) where we explore the power of self inquiry; asking ourselves good questions. How do we construct good questions that allow us to find the...
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