PSP 027: Why Reassurance Doesn’t Help Children with Anxiety and OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:17.0	In this episode, we are going to be talking about
0:20.0	why reassurance doesn't help children with anxiety and or OCD.
0:27.0	Now before you get really angry, I have a full disclaimer before I even start this episode,
0:32.0	and that is, I reassure my anxious kids all the time.
0:35.0	So you're like, wait, what?
0:38.0	What is she talking about?
0:40.0	I want to talk to you about why it's not helpful.
0:42.0	Yeah, we all do it.
0:44.0	If you have a heart and you have a pulse, you're going to reassure your anxious kids because it's
0:51.0	what we do. I mean, how can you have a child who's anxious or is having an
0:55.2	O. C. D. moment and not try to provide reassurance. But what I want to talk about
0:59.6	today is is it
1:03.0	helpful or is there something better that we all can be doing.
1:08.0	So that's where I'm coming from today.
1:10.0	This is kind of a weird topic, but I feel like it's relevant because I see so many families in my practice
1:17.0	who are constantly providing reassurance to their kids and it's not helping and I see my own struggles of course at home and I
1:26.7	always like to I guess throw myself under the bus and talk about my mistakes and
1:32.1	the things that I'm experiencing as a parent and not as a therapist.
1:36.7	Because I find that kind of interesting.
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