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AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

Natasha Daniels, Child OCD and Anxiety Therapist, shares practical advice for parents raising kids with OCD and anxiety. Raising a child or teen with OCD can feel overwhelming and isolating—but you don’t have to do it alone. In this podcast, Natasha shares practical, evidence-based strategies to support kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders.With over 20 years of clinical experience and first-hand knowledge as a parent herself to children with OCD and anxiety, Natasha offers

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PSP 406: How to Handle Tourettic OCD with Dr. John...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/02/18

Not every OCD theme is about a fear, sometimes it is about a feeling. That is the case with Tourettic OCD. Tourettic OCD is not triggered by an intrusive thought, but rather a somatic urge. Compulsions can include sudden, repetitive movements or vocalizations.It can be tricky to figure out what is a tic and what is tourettic OCD. That is why I invited Dr. John Piacentini to the show. Dr. John Piacentiniis a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine and

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PSP 405: How to Improve Communication when Dealing...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/02/11

Effective communication is one of the most essential aspects of parenting a child with OCD or anxiety. When communication breaks down, our ability to support them directly becomes limited.The way we communicate, the words we choose, and our ability to read our child’s cues while respecting their pace all play a crucial role in how effective that communication will be.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I’ll explore some important strategies for fostering effective communication and share

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43:40

PSP 404: How Your Childhood Impacts How You Handle...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/02/04

We don’t just leave our childhood in the past. It comes with us, altering our lens of how we view life. This includes how we view and interact with our child’s anxiety or OCD.When we learn to identify the “smudges” our childhood is adding to our lens, we are better able to separate out our issues from our child’s issues, becoming more present and intentional in the moment.In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I will help you explore the 5 main categories where our childhood impacts

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50:15

PSP 403: Parents at Odds: How Disagreements Impact...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/01/28

When parents disagree on how to approach their child’s anxiety or OCD, they do more than irritate each other, it impacts their child’s progress with anxiety or OCD.In this week’s episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I dive into the top 5 topics parents often disagree on when it comes to their child’s OCD or anxiety. We’ll also dive into why these are such common topics for disagreement as well as ways parents can mitigate the impact it has on their child’s anxiety or OCD.🌸 Learn how to be

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47:23

PSP: 402: Knowing When to Step Back: Supporting Your...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/01/21

Trying to help a child with OCD or anxiety is not an easy task. One reason for that is because we are not steering the ship. This is not our battle. This is not our struggle. Although trust me, I know we have our own struggles on this journey raising a child with OCD or anxiety.But, we don’t get to override our child’s autonomy to smooth things out. I wish we could.The single hardest part about raising children with OCD or anxiety is we have to follow their pace. We have to follow their level of

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39:25

PSP 401: Are We Inadvertently Contributing to Our...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/01/14

We all want our kids with anxiety or OCD to believe in themselves. We want them to try hard things. We want them to push through their fears. But we only have so much control on how motivated they are to do those things to help themselves.We do, however, have control over how we show up to our child’s battle with anxiety or OCD.When we over accommodate, over enable and cocoon our kids from all discomfort and failure, we rob them of the opportunity to develop resilience.It is a balancing act and it

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39:43

PSP: 400: The Difference Between Reframing Anxiety...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2025/01/07

How we reframe anxious thoughts vs OCD thoughts are vastly different. Understanding the nuances of how we talk to these two disorders differently is crucial for any parent trying to help their child.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the differences between anxiety and OCD and how we would coach our kids through anxious thoughts versus OCD thoughts.🌸 Want in-depth support helping your child with anxiety or OCD? Get on the waitlist to join the AT Parenting Community.

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44:36

PSP: 399: Why the Core Fear Matters in Anxiety and OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/12/31

Does it really matter if you understand the core fear related to your child’s anxiety or OCD. The short answer - yes.Of course we will treat anxiety with anxiety tools regardless of theme or core fear. And we will treat OCD as OCD regardless of theme or core fear. But understanding the core fear in anxiety or OCD is like the difference between using a compass to get where you are going versus a GPS.Core fears help us identify and pinpoint exactly what fuels all the anxiety and OCD themes; what fuels

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39:08

PSP: 398: Handling Your Child’s Anxiety, OCD and...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/12/24

Just because it is the holiday season doesn’t mean our child’s anxiety and OCD take a break. The holidays can stir up a variety of issues for our kids depending on their particular anxiety and OCD themes.Down time can cause more anxious or intrusive thoughts. The whirlwind of parties, overstimulation and no routine can make emotions run high. It can be tricky to deal with contamination, restrictive eating, panic attacks and upsetting thoughts around relatives and friends.In this week’s AT Parenting

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PSP: 397: Feelings of Failure When Our Child’s...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/12/17

As parents we can be hard on ourselves. The parenting journey raising kids with anxiety and OCD can come with many ups and downs. Many of us blame ourselves when our child’s anxiety or OCD doesn’t get better.But the truth is you can do absolutely everything to help your child with anxiety or OCD and they still don’t improve.We are only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to our child’s anxiety or OCD.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the narrative that we often tell ourselves

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PSP: 396: A New OCD Tool to Help Kids Practice Their...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/12/10

Often it is hard to get our kids into OCD therapy, and when we do, it can be an uphill battle to get them to practice those skills in between sessions.That is why I’m so excited to offer another tool to your at-home toolbox!In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I’m sharing with you my latest resource, the OCD Card Deck.We’ll explore how you can use this card deck at home and how it can sharpen your child’s self-esteem, motivation and ERP (Exposure Response Prevention) skills!🎴 To get your

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48:12

PSP: 395: How to Improve Sibling Relationships...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/12/03

We all want our kids to have strong sibling relationships, but often anxiety and OCD can get in the way. Siblings might feel targeted by the child with anxiety or OCD. They might be on the receiving end of aggression or they might just feel sidelined by how much attention their sibling requires.Just like with anxiety and OCD, we have our role to play when it comes to facilitating strong sibling bonds. Learning what our role and what it isn’t, is so important!In this week’s AT Parenting Survival

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PSP: 394: Can You Find Happiness While Your Child is...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/11/26

Are you able to experience happiness while your child is struggling with anxiety or OCD? Do you feel guilty or tell yourself stories about your ability to be “happy” while your child is suffering?Many of us tell ourselves things like, “we can’t be happy if our child is struggling with anxiety or OCD.” But is that actually true? And more importantly, is that belief even helpful?In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the idea of happiness, especially when the ones we care about the

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59:36

PSP: 393: Helping Autistic Kids Who have OCD with Jan...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/11/19

It can be hard enough to help a child with OCD, but what if they are autistic as well? It can be confusing to figure out where autistic traits end and OCD compulsions begin. It can also be a struggle to navigate two worlds that don’t always intersect.That is why I was thrilled to invite Jan Stewart to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Jan is a highly regarded mental health and neurodiversity advocate and mom to two, now grown children with multiple diagnoses.She is the author of Hold on Tight: A

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PSP: 392: What Stories are You Telling Yourself About...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/11/12

We may not have full control over our child’s recovery around anxiety or OCD, but we can control how we show up to their struggles. This can be tricky when our mind is bogged down with what-if scenarios.That is why it is so important to pay attention to the narratives we are spinning around our child’s anxiety or OCD and tap into what emotions are showing up for us, as we show up for them.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the stories that so many of us raising kids with anxiety

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PSP: 391: What to Do When Your Child Won’t Get Needed...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/11/05

The number one struggle I hear from parents is, “My child won’t accept help for their anxiety or OCD.” What are we supposed to do when anxiety or OCD has hijacked the house and everyone who inhabits it?Dr. Alec Pollard has dedicated his career and research to this very question. He is the co-developer of the Family Well-Being Approach (FWBA) and is the founding director of the Center for OCD & Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, and professor emeritus of

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51:55

PSP: 390: Helping Kids Who Give Up Easily

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/10/29

Anxiety and OCD can take a TON of resilience. So when we have kids who generally give up easily, this can impact how they handle their mental health struggles. Some kids have this go get’em attitude and get up every time they are knocked down, while other kids give up before they even begin.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast we’ll discuss why some kids give up so easily and what concrete things we can do to help them shift this behavior.Resources:People Who Failed Before They Succeeded29

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48:20

PSP 389: Reducing Isolation in Kids Who are Doing...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/10/22

Many of our kids thrive in non-traditional learning environments. And some of our kids are not able to go to an in-person school due to the acuity of their anxiety or OCD.One of the cons of at-home learning is the isolation it can bring. Isolation can increase anxiety and OCD and make our kids feel disconnected. It is helpful to have a proactive plan on how to connect our kids with others so we reduce the impact of isolation.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I discuss the risk of

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42:50

PSP 388: Helping Our College Kids with Anxiety or OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/10/15

It is hard enough supporting our kids with anxiety or OCD, but what happens when they go away to college? We still need to support our kids, but our relationship and physical proximity has changed.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival podcast I explore the many ways in which our mindset and role shifts when our kids go off to college. We’ll discuss effective ways to support them and foster independence.🎉 To celebrate OCD Awareness Week families can get 50% off all my online courses on anxiety and

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52:58

PSP 387: How to Address Picking and Pulling Behaviors...

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety ·

2024/10/08

It is not uncommon for kids with anxiety or OCD to also have issues with picking their skin or pulling their hair. These behaviors are classified as BFRBs, body-focused, repetitive behaviors. Although BFRBs are a common comorbid condition to anxiety and OCD, it is a separate disorder with its own set of therapy approaches.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, we celebrate BFRB week by having one of my favorite people on, Aneela Idnani from Habitaware. Aneela has struggled with

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