How to Boost Your Child’s Confidence While Navigating Anxiety or Child OCD with Sharon West
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Confidence can take a major hit when a child is struggling with OCD or anxiety. In this episode, I sit down with teen coach Sharon West to explore how we can nurture self-confidence in our kids—even as they battle intrusive thoughts, worry, and fear.
Sharon shares insights from her 15+ years working with teens—as a life coach, foster mom, youth leader, and mom of three. Together, we talk about how to give kids space to build competence, how to model self-compassion and resilience, and why peer connection is a vital part of helping our kids feel a sense of belonging.
Sharon also introduces her virtual teen program, Connected & Skilled—a supportive group experience where teens can grow in confidence, practice life skills, and connect with like-minded peers in a warm, judgment-free space.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How anxiety and OCD impact a child’s self-confidence
- Practical ways parents can build confidence without rescuing
- The role of peer acceptance—and how we can’t create it, but we can support it
- How Sharon’s “Connected & Skilled” program helps teens build skills and self-worth in community
🌸 Learn more and register for Sharon’s virtual teen program here:
https://natashadaniels.com/teen
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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. Welcome to another |
| 0:23.3 | episode at the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about how to help our |
| 0:28.7 | kids boost their self-confidence. A lot of our kids, and a lot of us as adults, really lack |
| 0:36.6 | self-confidence. And when you add anxiety and OCD to the |
| 0:40.5 | mix, self-confidence takes a big hit. And so it can impact our self-confidence. And also a lot of the |
| 0:46.8 | struggles are exacerbated by a lack of self-confidence. So when you don't believe in yourself, |
| 0:51.8 | it's even harder to tap into those skills because you already have this mindset that it's not going to work or that nothing you do is right |
| 0:58.9 | or that you can't, you're not capable. And so building self-confidence for all kids and teens and adults |
| 1:06.9 | is important. It's something that we can all work on. We can work on it as parents, and we can |
| 1:12.7 | certainly help foster that confidence in our kids, teens, and young adults. But how do we do that? |
| 1:19.2 | That is why I invited Sharon West to the show. Sharon is actually one of my favorite people in the |
| 1:25.3 | world, to be honest. I love her. I actually met Sharon through a |
| 1:31.3 | mutual friend who's also phenomenal. And she was a teen confidence mentor, which I had never heard |
| 1:38.0 | of that term. And I wanted to know more about her and her work. And so we actually started to connect. And she was looking for a mentor, |
| 1:47.8 | you know, someone to help her with online stuff. And we have been connected ever since. And I was so |
| 1:55.8 | impressed with her skills and her programs that I quickly signed my son up for her stuff. And so I was like, |
| 2:03.1 | not only do I want to help you expand and reach hopefully eventually a global scale, but |
| 2:08.8 | I want my child to just soak you up and learn from you. And he has done phenomenal in her |
| 2:16.4 | programs. She just has this innate talent to connect with teens |
| 2:21.3 | on a level I have never seen before and to really boost their self-confidence and to create an |
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