This Teen Cracked the Code on Anxiety and Teaches You How He Did It
The Mel Robbins Podcast with Oakley Robbins
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Are you tired of feeling anxious?
Want to know a simple way to boost your confidence?
Do you need better boundaries with your family?
Buckling under the pressure of college applications, a job search, or other big life decisions?
Listeners from around the world have been writing in about these issues, asking specifically for both Mel’s advice and her 18-year-old son Oakley’s young adult perspective.
This is a fantastic conversation to listen to as a family. It will give you amazing insight into issues you may be facing as well as eye-opening honesty about how the young adults in your life are thinking about these topics.
In this conversation, Mel and Oakley discuss topics like:
- How to properly support someone you love with anxiety
- When to know if it’s time to break up with someone
- If it’s possible to stay friends with an ex
- How to create boundaries with your family
- When you should be worried someone is spending too much time alone
- A really interesting take on gaming
- Handling the pressure of college applications, divorce, job search, or finding your purpose
- How to talk to your kid about alcohol: surprising boundaries you can use to protect the ones you love
- What to do to get someone talking when they are not talking to you
- Specific advice on building confidence as a young adult
- Mistakes divorcing parents make
- How to have a tough conversation with your parents
- Calming words for someone going through a hard time
- A short visualization exercise to calm anxiety
- A fun and free way to get closer to your family
- A young adult perspective on hazing and bullying and why you should always get your parents involved
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In this episode:
- 1:40: This is why I love having my son, Oakley, on the podcast.
- 3:20: How to let go of the pressure when your life doesn’t go the way you want.
- 8:30: You get to set boundaries with family and friends.
- 11:15: What to do for your kids when you’re going through divorce.
- 12:30: How you give your kids the space to be their own person.
- 15:30: I had no idea my son did this every morning.
- 18:00: How do you talk to your kids about alcohol?
- 24:00: When do you know it’s time to break up with someone?
- 25:25: Oakley isn’t into random hookups for these reasons.
- 26:10: Can you be friends with your ex?
- 27:10: How to support your siblings throughout your life.
- 29:13: Have a conversation with your parents when you feel left out.
- 30:00: How to handle your teen always being in their room.
- 35:05: Is Oakley single?
- 36:45: Advice about boosting your confidence at any time in your life.
- 42:00: As a parent, do you step in when your college kid is being bullied?
- 45:45: What you need to know when you feel lost and alone.
- 47:20: How do you support someone with chronic anxiety?
- 48:25: Meditation strategies to use when you’re feeling anxious.
- 53:25: Can’t forget the bloopers!
Resources and go deeper:
If You Struggle With Anxiety, This Episode Will Change Your Life
Raw and Refreshing Advice on Navigating Anxiety, Popularity, and Peer Pressure
- Good advice from a legal resource about college bullying.
- The New York Times: How to cope when everything keeps changing.
- Child Mind Institute: Supporting kids through a divorce.
- UC, Berkeley: The power of journaling, according to research.
- University of Minnesota: Talking to your teens about alcohol.
- Psychology Today: How to know when it’s time to break up.
- Time Magazine: When it’s time to let go of someone you love.
- Harvard Business Review: How to build confidence at work.
- A Toolkit for Confidence: The Mel Robbins Podcast
- American Psychological Assoc: Mindfulness meditation for anxiety works.
- MIT: What nihilism is not.
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