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

PSP 316: How to Parent While Struggling with Chronic Pain

05.30.2023 - By Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and Child OCD ExpertPlay

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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 for our struggles. That we don’t have time to address our needs. We push through and do more damage in the end.

But the truth is if you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be able to effectively take care of your child. Helping a child with anxiety or OCD is exhausting and chronic pain will only add to that fatigue.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk to Dr. Andrea Durand, my go-to expert on all things pain related. She explores our relationship with chronic pain and discusses ways we can address the pain to minimize its impact on our daily lives.

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