Avoid These 4 Communication Stoppers When Helping a Child with OCD
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When you’re trying to support a child with OCD, communication is everything. But sometimes, even with the best intentions, we accidentally shut it down.
In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I’ll walk you through four common OCD communication stoppers—like punishing, over-rationalizing, or jumping straight into coaching—and explain why they backfire.
Learn how to foster open, supportive conversations about your child’s OCD that actually help your child feel heard and empowered.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.5 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.3 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you |
| 0:29.0 | about four communication stoppers that we want to be aware of when we're trying to help our child with |
| 0:35.1 | OCD. Often, communication and trust is at the foundational level of what we need to move the dial |
| 0:43.4 | in order to help our kids with OCD. |
| 0:45.6 | And when we inadvertently do things that communicate and encourage shutdown, |
| 0:52.6 | inadvertently our child with OCD is less open, less articulate, |
| 0:58.5 | and less collaborative when we're trying to help them with their OCD struggles. So today we're |
| 1:03.4 | going to talk about what are these communication stoppers? A lot of us do them. And then what do we |
| 1:08.2 | do instead? That's always the key is, okay, yeah, this is not |
| 1:11.7 | helpful, but then what am I supposed to do? We're going to get all into it in just a moment. |
| 1:16.4 | But before we jump in, I do want to thank No CD for sponsoring this episode. No CD offers affordable, |
| 1:21.9 | effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the U.S. and outside the U.S. |
| 1:27.4 | You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if an OCD is a right fit for you and your |
| 1:32.9 | child. Just go to treat my OCD.com. That is treat my OCD.com. I'll also leave a link in the show |
| 1:40.0 | notes. All right. So let's dive into today. Communication is so important. And I'm constantly |
| 1:47.7 | assessing and evaluating my communication style with my kids, probably too much. I'm aware of like, |
| 1:56.8 | oh, what I'm doing right now is shutting communication down. Or, oh, this is a really important |
| 2:04.5 | moment. The door is cracked open. I don't want to ruin it. And so the first step is really |
| 2:11.2 | bringing that awareness of the importance of communication into like front and center so that you have this awareness |
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