Strategies for Empowering Bullied Children—with Patricia Stahl - 231

Consistent bullying not only affects a child’s academic performance and school experience, it has a lasting emotional and psychological impact.

Left untreated, bullying can even be detrimental to their physical health and make relationships more challenging.

So, what is the most effective way to address bullying?

Patricia Stahl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of experience as a therapist specializing in social anxiety.

After years of hearing clients talk about their childhood bullying experiences and witnessing the pain bullying caused one of her own sons, Pat has written From ‘Loser’ to Legend: How 60+ Celebrities Survived & Thrived After Bullying.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Patricia joins Anjel to discuss the severe consequences bullying has for children and describe how the effect of being bullied persists into adulthood.

Patricia explains how parents can support their bullied children, sharing strategies for helping kids assert themselves with bullies and explaining why you should get the school involved in cases of physical violence. 

Listen in to understand how Patricia’s book empowers bullied kids and learn her shame attacking exercises for addressing the lingering effects of bullying, such as social anxiety and people pleasing behaviors.

What You Will Learn 

The severe consequences bullying has for children, e.g.: anxiety, substance abuse, violence, etc.

How parents can support their bullied children and help them address the bully themselves

Patricia’s fogging strategy for kids to assert themselves in the face of bullying

Why Patricia suggests getting the school involved in instances of physical violence

The benefit of helping kids who experience physical aggression from bullies to get physically stronger

How the effects of being bullied persist into adulthood and manifest as social anxiety

How Patricia’s book normalizes being bullied and empowers kids to deal with the challenge

Patricia’s shame attacking exercise for addressing social anxiety and people pleasing behaviors

Connect with Patricia Stahl

From ‘Loser’ to Legend

Resources

From ‘Loser’ to Legend: How 60+ Celebrities Survived & Thrived After Bullying by Patricia Stahl, LCSW

Buddies Over Bullies

Wickedly Smart Women: Trusting Intuition, Taking Action, Transforming Worlds by Anjel B. Hartwell

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