I am an anxious person. I know this. I have worked on it, continue to work on it, and manage it reasonably well in my own life.
But I have a six-year-old and a nine-year-old, and I worry constantly that my anxiety is bleeding into how I parent them. The catastrophising when they go somewhere without me. The overthinking about every school situation. The way I sometimes hold them back from things because I am afraid, not because they should be.
I want to raise children who feel safe and competent and unafraid of the world. I'm not sure a person who worries as much as I do can do that well.
How have other anxious parents navigated this? How do you give your children something you're still building yourself?