AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family

By Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and Child OCD Expert

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The truth is we are all surviving parenting one day at a time. Add child anxiety or childhood OCD and it can be overwhelming! On The AT Parenting Survival Podcast your host Natasha Daniels will ride the Parental roller coaster with you. She will teach you parenting approaches to help child anxiety and OCD, she’ll give you a new perspective on common parenting problems and will re-invigorate your sparkle for parenting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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PSP 300: Reducing Chaos Anx...

02.07.2023

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02.07.2023 PSP 300: Reducing Chaos Anxiety or OCD Bring to the Family Sign up for the FREE series: Self-Care for Parents Raising Kids with Anxiety or OCD here. Supplemental podcasts related to this topic: Partner related issues: What to Do When Your Partner Triggers Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD How to Deal ...
01.31.2023 PSP 299: The Relationship with Sleep and Anxiety & OCD Many kids with anxiety and OCD struggle with sleep. This sleep struggle can be caused by a variety of issues that are different for each child. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the most common ways anxiety ...
01.24.2023 PSP 298: When Anxiety and OCD Themes Impact the Ability to Get Help There are many times when the actual theme of our child’s anxiety or OCD can undermine their ability to get help. How are we supposed to help our kids (or clients/patients) when the very nature of helping is triggering their ...
01.17.2023 PSP 297: The Difference Between Gut Instinct vs Anxiety/OCD Teaching our kids to trust their gut instinct can be a lifesaver. But what do we do when anxiety or OCD feels like gut instinct? What if intuition is really their OCD magical thinking in disguise? In this week’s AT ...
01.10.2023 PSP 296: How Can I Stop My Child’s Compulsions? So many parents ask me, “How can I stop my child’s compulsions?” The quick answer is, you can’t. You can stop your participation in them, but you can’t force your child to not do compulsions. And even if you can, ...
01.03.2023 PSP 295: Is Not Talking to My Child’s OCD Making Them Suffer? I get this question so often I thought it deserved a whole podcast. One of the first things OCD therapists often teach parents is how to pull back their reassurance. This can make a parent feel very uncomfortable and I ...
12.27.2022 PSP 294: How Helping others Can Help Kids with Anxiety or OCD The best ways to directly help our kids with anxiety or OCD is through effective treatment, but there are some side dishes that can aid in their progress. When we help others it can improve self-esteem, mood and purpose. In ...
12.20.2022 PSP 293: Common Missed Compulsions: Spitting, Confessing & More Compulsions are often missed by parents and therapists not trained to treat OCD. Sometimes our kids will be doing something right in front of us and we’ll miss it. It is easy to do when OCD has a million different ...
12.13.2022 PSP 292: How OCD and Anxiety can Impact Eating Having a child with anxiety or OCD can be a challenge, but when it impacts eating, it can become a major health issue. Many kids with anxiety or OCD struggle to eat for many different reasons. In this week’s AT ...
12.06.2022 PSP 291: The First Step to Progress: Trust and Communication Working on anxiety or OCD is like lining up dominos. Without certain pieces you aren’t going to get too far. One of the first dominos is trust and communication. Without trust and communication, helping our kids with anxiety or OCD ...
11.29.2022 PSP 290: Helping Kids with OCD when it is a Feeling, not a Fear OCD is not always about a fear, sometimes it is about a feeling. Kids with OCD can have intrusive feelings around disgust. They can have issues where things don’t feel just right. They can be hyper focused on bodily sensations ...
11.22.2022 PSP 289: Parenting a Child with Moral OCD When kids have Moral OCD, intrusive thoughts they are a bad person, it can be hard to discipline and set boundaries. It can also hit their self-esteem on a level that makes it hard to manage. In this week’s AT ...
11.15.2022 PSP 288: How to Turn Fearful Moments into Helpful Challenges Our kids with anxiety or OCD will often have moments of fear and avoidance. What we do in those moments can have a big impact on their long term success. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about ...
11.08.2022 PSP 287: How Our Attitude Impacts Our Child’s Anxiety or OCD We are only one piece of the puzzle in our child’s long term success with anxiety or OCD, but our attitude is something we have full control over. How we show up to our child’s struggles can have a big ...
11.01.2022 PSP 286: Helping Our Kids with Big Emotions Often our kids with anxiety or OCD have BIG emotions. These emotions can be exhausting or overwhelming for us to handle. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how to shift our perspective when these big emotions ...
10.25.2022 PSP 285: How to Get Kids with Anxiety or OCD to Move Towards Their Fears As parents we want to encourage our kids with anxiety or OCD to move towards their fears and discomfort, not away from them. But how do we do that? In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the ...
10.18.2022 PSP 284: How Puberty Impacts Anxiety & OCD Puberty is hard enough, but add anxiety and OCD to the mix and UGH! In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the good (yes there is some good), the bad (oh yeah, there is that too) and ...
10.11.2022 PSP 283: Inpatient Treatment for OCD: When to Consider it & What to Do After OCD can take over our child or teen’s world and sometimes we have to get more intensive support. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the different levels of care that are available to kids with OCD, ...
10.04.2022 Special announcement that couldn't wait until next week! I have a special announcement that couldn't wait until next week! I have a special offer for you that will end this Friday. If you have been wanting to provide your child or teen with clinically sound, evidenced based approaches ...
10.04.2022 PSP 282: Signs and Symptoms of Agoraphobia in Kids Agoraphobia can prevent our kids from being able to leave the house, be in crowds, go to the movies or travel - just to name a few. It can be a debilitating and life altering disorder and often the signs ...
09.27.2022 PSP 281: Supporting Fathers in their Parenting Journey Parenting can be an isolating journey, but as women we often have many resources at our fingertips. We have Mommy and Me classes and endless Facebook groups ready to get our mama back. But what about fathers? The fatherhood journey ...
09.20.2022 PSP 280: My Child Doesn’t Want Help for Anxiety or OCD. Now What? You finally found help for your child with anxiety or OCD but they don’t want to work on it. Now what? That can be beyond frustrating! Especially if it took you a long time to connect with the right resources ...
09.13.2022 PSP 279: How to help Your Child with OCD related to Contamination OCD comes in many different shapes and flavors. One way it shows up is through the concept of “contamination.” Contamination means something different for each person who suffers from OCD, but they all have two things in common: Something/someone cannot ...
09.06.2022 PSP 278: Helping Kids with OCD Know They are Not Alone Having OCD can be a lonely experience. Kids can feel like there is no one else out there who gets their struggles. And really, who can blame them? The media (and even worse social media) often spend their time talking ...
08.30.2022 PSP 277: Learning How to Let Go of Perceived Control It is hard not to want to control our child’s anxiety or OCD journey. It is hard not to have expectations for how it should turn out. It’s human nature to want to do everything in our power to help ...
08.23.2022 PSP 276: How to Spot if You are Talking to OCD vs Your Child OCD is sneaky! It hides in the questions our children ask. It disguises itself with curiosity, constant checking or over apologetic responses. OCD is a family affair and it often gets us as parents to inadvertently grow it on a ...
08.16.2022 PSP 275: Helping Kids with Health Anxiety or OCD with Dawn Huebner A common theme among kids with anxiety or OCD is their health. Are they breathing? Are they choking? Is that bump going to lead to a horrible disease? This week I brought Dr. Dawn Huebner onto the AT Parenting Survival ...
08.09.2022 PSP 274: Getting ahead of school refusal before school starts The idea of going back to school can bring waves of panic for both you and your child. You might want to pretend the first day of school will never happen. Trust me I get it! But there are things ...
08.02.2022 PSP 273 Are You Remembering Your Own Mental Health? When we are raising a child with anxiety or OCD it can be all consuming. So consuming that we put everything on hold, including our own mental health. This is a slippery slope because without our own mental stability, we ...
07.26.2022 PSP: 272 Dealing with Disappointment when Anxiety or OCD Comes Back It can feel so good when anxiety and OCD pack their bags and give you your child back. Heck, give you your home back. So it can be more than jarring, when that unwanted guest shows back up at your ...
07.19.2022 PSP: 271 Fighting OCD is Often Not What Kids Think You’ll often hear the word “fight your OCD.” In fact, one of my favorite books about OCD is called Talking Back to OCD, by John March. But sometimes kids misunderstand what this means (and parents too). When we talk about ...
07.12.2022 PSP: 270 Getting Kids to Own Their Journey with Anxiety or OCD Many of us learn how to help our kids with anxiety or OCD, but are we doing enough to help them help themselves? Helping our kids own their journey is key to their long term success. It is similar to ...
07.05.2022 PSP: 269 Helping Kids who are Scared to Go To the Dentist Most of us don’t love going to the dentist, but for some of our kids it can throw them into a state of panic and fear. This can become a real barrier for check ups, fillings and tooth extractions. So ...
06.28.2022 PSP 268: Do You Take Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD Personally? Anxiety and OCD can cause our children to act in ways that can be overwhelming, disheartening and sometimes even hurtful. It is easy to fall into the trap of taking our children’s anxiety or OCD personally. In this week’s AT ...
06.21.2022 PSP: 267 Helping Kids with Emetophobia \| The Fear of Throwing Up with Dawn Huebner It might surprise some people that the fear of throwing up, Emetophobia, is one of the most common anxiety and OCD themes. For those of us raising a child with it, it isn’t surprising at all! Sometimes this fear is ...
06.14.2022 PSP: 266 How to Turn Our Child’s “Failures” into Wins We will all fall short sometimes and so will our children with anxiety or OCD. They will avoid, they will crumble, they will give in to their anxiety or OCD. That is all par for the course. More often than ...
06.07.2022 PSP: 265 Helping Kids with Anxiety & OCD with the Downtime of Summer Summer is here and with that comes extra free time for most of our kids with anxiety or OCD. You would think that would be a wonderful thing. Less pressure from school, homework and peer interactions. Less places to be ...
05.31.2022 PSP: 264 Parenting a Child When You Have Anxiety or OCD as Well It’s hard enough to parent a child with anxiety or OCD, but when your own mental health issues are added to the mix, it can be all encompassing. But it’s not all bad. Having your own anxiety or OCD issues ...
05.24.2022 PSP: 263 Why Parents Shouldn’t Rationalize with OCD It is so tempting to try and rationalize with our child’s OCD. It’s a knee jerk reaction that most of us do at some point. We might try to problem-solve their OCD issues away. We might try to bombard them ...
05.17.2022 PSP: 262 The Wait-and-See Approach to Anxiety or OCD How often do we hear from family, friends and even doctors that we should “wait and see” if it gets worse. We should wait and see if the anxiety or OCD grows bigger. We should wait and see if anxiety ...
05.10.2022 PSP: 261 Helping Anxious Kids Try New Things with Dawn Huebner Anxious kids often have a hard time trying new things. This might impact what they’ll eat, what activities they’ll try or how they feel about going to new places. It can permeate their lives in a way that limits their ...
05.03.2022 PSP: 260 Handling Sexual Themes Around OCD OCD can be stigmatizing enough, but when you add sexual themes it can add another layer of guilt and shame. It can also make parents and even therapists uncomfortable! How are you supposed to deal with a sexual intrusive thought ...
04.26.2022 PSP: 259 Helping Kids with Fears of Animals & Insects with Dawn Huebner Many kids have fears of animals and insects, but for some it can dominate their lives. They might worry about seeing the feared animal or insect. They might go out of their way to avoid an encounter. It might be ...
04.19.2022 PSP: 258 The Impact of Child Anxiety or OCD on Marriages There are many things that can put a strain on marriages. Once the honeymoon is over it can be a struggle to agree on finances, household chores and parenting. When anxiety or OCD is in the mix it can make ...
04.12.2022 PSP: 257 Helping Kids with “Pure O” and Mental Compulsions Many kids have what some people call “pure O” or purely obsessional thoughts. But more often than not those obsessional thoughts are quieted by a menu of mental compulsions that go along with it. So what is a parent to ...
04.05.2022 PSP: 256 How Anxiety & OCD Impact Tech Use As parents, we all struggle with our children’s tech use. It seems like most kids have their heads buried in their phone, computer or game console. But what if it goes deeper? What if they are using technology to avoid ...
03.29.2022 PSP 255 How to Handle New OCD Themes OCD is often like whack a mole. Just when you get one OCD theme under control, BOOM, another one creeps in to take its place. This can be disheartening, especially if you don’t have the right mindset. OCD is an ...
03.22.2022 PSP 254 How the Inhibitory Learning Model Changes OCD Treatment OCD approaches are constantly evolving and changing. This is in part due to the wonderful, ongoing research around OCD. In recent years we’ve seen a growing number of OCD therapists incorporate ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, into OCD therapy. We’ve ...
03.15.2022 PSP 253 Helping Kids with Anxiety Reframe Anxious Thoughts Anxious thoughts grow, build momentum and turn into an avalanche of overwhelm. But what if kids with anxiety were taught how to stop the mental chaos before it grew out of control? What if they were able to reframe their ...
03.08.2022 PSP 252 Conscious Parenting with Sue DeCaro Parenting can seem overwhelming and exhausting. But when you look at it through the lens of conscious parenting, it can offer some hidden gems. Parenting can tell us so much about ourselves. It can offer us insights that we might ...

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