PSP 132: What to Do When the Stress of Raising a Child with Anxiety or OCD is too Much

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

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

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

You are done. You can’t take it anymore. When will things get better? How long is this going to last? Will things ever change?Raising a child with anxiety or OCD can be beyond exhausting. You are not alone. Many of us have been there. We know what it is like to want to hit the escape button. We know what it is like to go to bed ridden with your own feelings of anxiety and hopelessness. All the What If’s and catastrophic thinking are hard to shut off. There is hope. When all the light is gone and all you see is darkness, it can be hard to feel hopeful. This week on the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I am shining a light into your darkness, to let you know… It will be okay. ***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:16.4	Podcast. I hope you are doing fantastic and maybe you're not because that is the whole theme of today's episode is when you
0:28.3	feel hopeless, when you feel so overwhelmed, when you feel like you just can't do this anymore but we don't have any choice
0:38.4	what do you do with that every single one of us has probably been there.
0:43.2	I'd be surprised if someone raising a child with anxiety or OCD has not been there,
0:49.2	because that is a place where we all wind up at least once while we're on this journey.
0:55.9	And I wanted to make an episode just speaking to that feeling of hopelessness so that I can reach some of you who are maybe feeling like that right now.
1:06.0	So I'm going to get into that. I'm going to share a little bit about my own journey and a lot of what I see in my practice and talk about some inspirational things to hopefully kind of give you a little bit of a
1:19.0	sunbeam and some perspective of future hope.
1:24.0	So before I do that, just give you an update on what is going on in the AT parenting survival world.
1:30.0	I am very busy working on a sleep course. So I have a new online on demand video
1:38.5	class coming out in the beginning of September and I actually have created a free PDF for people just to get them thinking about sleep struggles.
1:51.0	So if you are a parent where one of your issues is sleep,
1:55.0	so if you are a parent where one of your issues is sleep, that will make you feel really hopeless,
1:57.0	because I have been there and done that,
1:59.0	and it's hard to function when you can't get your kids to sleep.
2:04.0	Because if they're not sleeping, you're not sleeping either.
2:07.4	And so sleep deprivation is like the entire family is experiencing it.
2:13.0	So everybody's irritable, everybody's grouchy.
2:15.4	So I have been asked to make this online class for quite a while.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.