PSP 189: Handling the Grief that Comes with an Anxiety or OCD Diagnosis

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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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Most of us had a fantasy of what parenting would look like. It might have involved Pinterest crafts, bake sales and play dates. It probably didn’t include hyperventilating, panic and avoidance. None of us signed up to parent a child with anxiety or OCD and most of us weren’t prepared to do it.It’s normal to have grief over what would have been. It’s normal to feel sad about the extra layer of struggles that were scooped onto your parental plate. But how do you move through that grief? How do you work through it so you are better equipped to help your child?In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the grief that most of us feel when raising a child with anxiety or OCD, myself included. I also talk about how to not get so lost in the weeds that you aren’t able to find your way out.To join my FREE 3-Part Video Series: Survival Tools for Parents Raising Kids with Anxiety or OCD go to http://bit.ly/survivaltoolsforparents ***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Let me become your $5 mini-coach. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/AtparentingsurvivalVisit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.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://www.ATparentingSurvivalSchool.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCD http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-anxietyHelping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://www.ATparentingSurvivalschool.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.ATparentingsurvival.com/reduce-child-anxiety/ To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/Interested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Get on the waitlist:http://www.atparentingcommunity.comFor 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/ATparentingsurvivalhttp://www.pinterest.com/ATparentingsurvivalhttp://www.twitter.com/atsurvivalhttp://www.instagram/ATparentingsurvival***

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the
0:08.2	Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not
0:14.8	intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your
0:18.9	host child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.0	Well hello there and therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:27.2	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Services podcast. Today's topic comes from an email I got. I was actually trying to find it and I can't find it so I
0:34.3	don't know if someone messaged me or emailed me. But she asked me if I could
0:38.7	cover this topic in an episode. I wanted to read her email but I couldn't find it because she has a child who I think was six and
0:48.7	is really struggling with her anxiety or OCD I can't remember because I can't find the email and she
0:55.3	wanted to talk about the grieving process you know that that she's really
0:58.6	grieving for what her child was supposed to be in her mind and for the childhood that she feels like she's kind of missing,
1:06.0	the snuggles and the things that she kind of fantasized about or envisioned when she was becoming a parent.
1:13.0	So I thought that was a really good topic
1:16.0	because most of us, no matter how old our kids are,
1:20.0	even if they're teenagers or even young adults have a grieving process of what is and
1:26.4	what we thought would be. And that's not just for people who are raising kids with
1:30.0	anxiety or OCD, it's for any parent who is dealing with a struggle with their
1:36.3	child and it's not what they signed up for.
1:39.6	It's not how they envisioned it.
1:41.4	And I want to go through that.
1:42.4	I want to talk about the grieving process that comes with
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