PSP 149: How to Help Kids who Worry About Their Health with Dr. Josh Spitalnick

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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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Health and anxiety have an intimate relationship. They love to hang out together. They love to work together. Anxiety can make you feel sick. Sickness can make you feel anxious. It can be a vicious duo that can wreak havoc in your child’s life.So how are you supposed to help kids who worry about their heath or whose anxiety makes them constantly feel slick? I brought Dr. Josh Spitalnick from Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta to help shed some light on how parents can help kids who worry about their health. He offers some helpful insight and take away approaches that often seem counterintuitive but are crucial in helping our kids.To learn more about Dr. Josh Spitalnick's practice go to www.Anxietyspecialistsofatlanta.com***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.comInterested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Click below to join us!http://www.atparentingcommunity.comSign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Take one of my online classes:To view the entire online school library, go to:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCDhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/reduce-child-anxiety/To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/For a list of my books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAJoin the fun on my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers***

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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	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:15.8	Podcast. I hope you're having a great day. I hope kids went back to school and
0:20.2	everything was okay and everybody survived. It was a little touch and go at my house for a little while
0:26.0	but everything is back into the swing of things.
0:29.0	Had a couple of sick kids lately.
0:32.0	My daughter's class, like half the class was out with the flu last
0:38.0	week so she was out sick today which is ironic because today we are talking about health anxiety
0:45.5	and what that is and how it shows up in our kids and she is my little one who
0:51.1	tends to have health anxiety she fears that she's going to
0:54.2	throw up and she fears she's going to get sick and so sometimes it's kind of
0:57.9	hard to say like is she sick or is she not sick. She's feeling it physically, but is it her anxiety,
1:05.0	or is she truly having some sort of virus or bug?
1:09.0	And I bet for those of you that are dealing with
1:11.0	at your house, you totally get the struggle.
1:14.4	But because I had gotten an email from her teacher that said, hey we have nine kids out,
1:18.7	or eight kids out, sick with the flu, and I got that email on Friday. My daughter started to sneeze and have a runny nose.
1:26.9	Those normally were really good indications that she's not doing well. If she felt like she was
1:30.7	nauseous that that's more of a mystery because her anxiety shows
1:36.8	up as nausea as I'm sure it does for many of your kids.
1:41.2	So we're going to talk all about health anxiety with my guest for today.
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