Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.

Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there, and welcome to a short brief little talk on the AT

parenting survival podcast. I decided to pop on today even though it is

Thursday and talk to you about something I'm starting next

week because I didn't want you to wait until my podcast episode comes out on

Tuesday because at that point I'll be halfway through my free resource

that I'm offering everybody and that's not fair to you guys because I kind of

spontaneously decided to do this and I didn't talk about it in my last episode. So do you struggle

with kind of managing your own stress, managing your own perspective towards your child with anxiety or OCD. Now most of us are going to say yes

for sure. Some of us might say no and we're lying to ourselves and some of us might just really

have it all together. But the majority of us don't. And a lot of that has to do

with our stress level and the way that we're viewing the situation and the way we're

approaching the situation and our lack of recharge.

So I am doing a three-part video series, it's free, on self-care just for parents who are raising

kids with anxiety or OCD because we need a unique

kind of self-care going to the spa getting our nails done that's not going to cut it for us. It's great and you can do it and it's

awesome but that's not what you need you need more than that. So I decided to do a

three-part video series and talk to you about the three rules of self-care that are super necessary if you're going to successfully parent a child with anxiety or OCD. I have watched parents for the last two decades in my practice and it's kind

of been like my own scientific experiment to sit here over two decades and

watch the patterns that I see emerge.

And when you sit there for that long watching people in similar situations

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