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 316: How to Parent Whil...

05.30.2023

Raising kids with anxiety or OCD is hard enough. But when you add chronic pain to your daily routine it can push you over the edge. Often we backburner our own issues. We tell ourselves that we don’t have time ...

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05.30.2023 PSP 316: How to Parent While Struggling with Chronic Pain Raising kids with anxiety or OCD is hard enough. But when you add chronic pain to your daily routine it can push you over the edge. Often we backburner our own issues. We tell ourselves that we don’t have time ...
05.23.2023 PSP 315: Turning OCD Pain into Passion \| Shaun Flores Shaun Flores had been suffering from OCD for years without knowing it. He hopped from OCD theme to OCD theme, listening to OCD’s lies and searching for certainty with each new worry. It wasn’t until 2022, when he finally met ...
05.16.2023 PSP 314: How to Help Kids Who Won’t Use Coping Skills We all want our kids with anxiety or OCD to use coping skills to deal with anxiety, overwhelm and dysregulation. But what happens when they refuse to use them? In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talked to my ...
05.09.2023 PSP 313: Helping Our Kids with Anxiety or OCD Flourish When we are in the trenches trying to help our kids with anxiety or OCD it can be hard to think of our kids flourishing. Often, however, it is within the struggle itself that some kids can find resiliency and ...
05.02.2023 PSP 312: How Imaginal Scripts are Used in OCD Treatment When we are raising kids with OCD it is important that we fully understand the therapeutic approaches our kids are being taught in therapy. Ultimately we will want our kids to be able to utilize those tools throughout their life. ...
04.25.2023 PSP 311: Improving Executive Functioning in Kids with Anxiety or OCD Anxiety and OCD can impact executive functioning in so many different ways. When our children are being bombarded with upsetting thoughts, executive functioning skills can go out the window. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I invited Rachel Kapp ...
04.18.2023 PSP 310: My Top 5 Podcasts & Youtube Videos for When Your Child is Just Diagnosed with OCD. I am often asked by parents just starting out on this journey, “Where do I start?” I have so many podcasts and Youtube videos on OCD it can be a bit overwhelming. That is why when a member of my ...
04.11.2023 PSP 309: Helping Kids with the Fear of Choking One of the most common anxiety themes is the fear of choking. Kids with this fear often hyperfocus on what they eat and how they eat. At its worst they can avoid all sorts of foods that they feel are ...
04.04.2023 PSP 308: How to Model Self-Esteem and Resilience What we do matters. What we think matters. We may not be able to control how our kids tackle their anxiety or OCD, but we can control how we model skills to help them. Anxiety and OCD can hit self-esteem ...
03.28.2023 PSP 307: Moving from OCD Treatment to Living with OCD Dealing with OCD isn’t like dealing with a cold. It isn’t cured and then we move on. It can help to shift our perspective to focus on how to live and, more importantly, thrive with OCD. In this week’s AT ...
03.21.2023 PSP 306: The Messiness of OCD Progress OCD progress is not linear. It is often actually bumpy along the way. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore why things can get messy and how to see beyond the messy to recognize the OCD progress. Free ...
03.14.2023 PSP 305: CBT vs ERP Treatment for OCD Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) are not the same. Many parents seeking treatment for OCD are not aware of that and search just for a CBT therapist. ERP is a specific type of CBT that provides ...
03.07.2023 PSP 304: Teaching Our Kids Not to Engage with OCD OCD wants us to take its threats seriously. It wants us to debate with it, argue, and come up with solutions to circumvent the issues it presents. Afraid of germs - let’s think of ways you can avoid it. Afraid ...
02.28.2023 PSP 303: Behaviors That Hide Anxiety or OCD Anxiety and OCD don’t always appear in an obvious way. Sometimes our kids will have behaviors that we would never think would be anxiety or OCD. In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about some common ...
02.21.2023 PSP 302: Adding Mindfulness and Yoga to Our Anxious Child’s Toolbox As a cognitive behavioral therapist I talk a great deal about how to help our kids by reframing their anxious thoughts and taking steps to do brave things. But I want to expand your child’s toolbox with other useful ways ...
02.14.2023 PSP 301: Parenting Beliefs that Stop Anxiety & OCD Progress We only have a small part to play in our child’s anxiety or OCD success. It is their journey and we are only one piece of that puzzle. But that is a puzzle piece we can work on! Often our ...
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 ...

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