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 another episode of the AT Parenting Survival

podcast. Today I want to talk to you about whether you need some extra support and a lot of us feel like an island a lot of us

feel like nobody else around us gets our children's anxiety, or especially our children's OCD, and it can be

hard with friends and family, and it can be even hard to find a therapist in your area that really understands anxiety and

no CD and children.

So I wanted to talk about something I've been working on for a really long time mentally and physically

for the last few months.

I get emailed a lot.

People find very creative ways to reach out to me.

Because people will message me on Facebook or they will

DM me on Instagram or they will find my email address or they will find

my practice information and then they'll find out how to reach

me through that and they will share with me their desperate stories of how they haven't

been able to help their children or how their children are having all these intense problems and what would I recommend or if they can do virtual therapy because they can't find anybody in their community or even in their state that can help their child.

And initially I would try to answer all of those.

I was up late at night, way past when my family would go to sleep,

responding to people's emails and messages, trying to give them some guidance, because I would know what I'd want to at least tell them.

So I feel like I know where to start people and what I'd want to tell them,

but I can't respond to every single person because I just

don't have the bandwidth and my family would never see me and really it's just an endless

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