AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
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.
PSP 362: The Use of Storytelling in Anxiety and OCD
It can be hard to help kids navigate anxiety and OCD. Sometimes adding some creative ways to help validate, normalize and build skills to handle anxiety or OCD can be gold! One of my favorite ways to do that is through storytelling.
Storytelling is a powerful tool. It can help kids understand how anxiety and OCD work. It can help talk about anxiety or OCD without discussing it directly. It can be a creative outlet to process emotions around anxiety and OCD. It can even be used to problem solve and teach tools on how to crush...
PSP 361: A Parenting Journey Raising a Child with Emetophobia
Raising a child with Emetophobia, the fear of throw up, can be an isolating experience. It brings with it all sorts of fears. What if they can’t overcome their struggles? What if they can’t go to school? What if they stop eating entirely?
It is important that parents don’t feel alone on this journey. That is why I was so thrilled when Lauren, a parent in my AT Parenting Community, reached out and asked to be on my podcast. She was so excited about seeing her daughter’s progress that she wanted to share he...
PSP 360: Managing Our Anxiety When Our Child is Panicking
Your child is paralyzed with fear. They are nauseous. They are faint. They are immobilized. It is hard to watch as a parent. For many of us it can trigger our own panicky response.
When our kids are spiraling out of control it can be so easy for us to spiral with them. It often takes a concerted effort to remain calm and be the anchor our child so desperately needs.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I’ll explore some techniques to reduce your own anxiety while your child is panicking.
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PSP 359: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Children | Dr. Tamar Black
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been a helpful therapy modality for many people with anxiety and OCD. Often parents wonder how this therapy can be adapted to help children.
I invited Dr. Tamar Black to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast to explain what Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is and how it can help our kids with anxiety and OCD.
Check out Dr. Black’s books, The ACT Workbook for Kids and ACT for Treating Children: The Essential Guide for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Children
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PSP 358: Psychologist Lori Long Talks About Life with Social Anxiety
One of the hardest parts about social anxiety is the feeling you are the only one with these struggles. It actually feeds into the disorder quite well. It is a story that many of us with social anxiety tell ourselves.
No one struggles like you do.
No one thinks the way you do.
No one would understand.
When I had Lori and her colleagues, Katie and Mallory, from The Childhood Collective on my podcast, I was surprised when Lori said she had social anxiety. I wanted to hear more and asked...
PSP 357: How to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem with Jesse LeBeau
Self-esteem and self-confidence can play a big role in our child’s journey with anxiety and OCD. When our anxious kids struggle they can feel overwhelmed with emotions of shame and isolation. They might beat themselves up for being different or for having difficulties.
Self-esteem can also play an integral role in how our kids approach anxiety or OCD. Do they have an I can’t attitude or do they feel confident that they can use skills to overcome anxiety and OCD?
Self-esteem work is always a crucial supplement to anxiety and OCD treatment. That is wh...
PSP 356: Are You a Punching Bag for Your Child’s Anxiety and OCD Overwhelm?
As parents we are often in the line of fire when it comes to our child’s overwhelm. When dealing with anxiety or OCD we can feel like we are our child’s punching bag. The truth is, physiologically our kids are often looking for a push-pull conversation. It is easier to see you as enemy #1 rather than facing anxiety and OCD head on.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how to “put the rope down” and remove yourself from this push-pull pattern.
🎉 My new book, Crushing OCD Workbook for...
PSP 355: Handling Parenting Moments When You Lose it!
We all lose it at one time or another. Parents are human. You are human. We inevitably will lose our cool and say or do things that we regret. But those parenting moments hold untapped clues to what is overwhelming us. Those moments hold wisdom, if we are able to move past the shame to see the insight underneath.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast we’ll explore how to handle those moments and what they might be revealing if we look deep.
🎉 My new book, Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids was just release...
PSP 354: A New Way to Help Your Child with OCD at Home
As parents we are often desperate to provide our children with tools to help their OCD. We might scour the internet trying to find an OCD specialist; not an easy feat. Or if we are lucky enough to have found an OCD specialist, we might want to know what we can do at home to fill in the gaps.
I often get asked, what does that look like? How can I help my child build their OCD skills at home to make sure we are getting ahead of this beast?
When kids learn and practice...
PSP 353: Social Anxiety and Bullying
There is a strong relationship between social anxiety and bullying. Research has shown that a clinically significant amount of people with social anxiety have experienced bullying. Often children have a genetic predisposition to anxiety, but environmental stressors, like bullying, blossom that genetic seed.
In this week’s episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the relationship between social anxiety and bullying, how it impacts our kids and what we can do about it.
Want more in-depth support around social anxiety? Take my course How to Crush Social Anxiety. https://atparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/cr...
