Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the

Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes

and is not intended to replace the guidance

of a qualified professional.

Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.

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Ollie links in the show note. So today I want to go into two questions

that we got submitted that I think will really resonate with a lot of you because they're probably

questions that you have as well. And I try to make these, try to make my answers as general

as I can so that I'm answering not only for the people that are asking me these questions,

but for you who's sitting there wondering the same type of question,

or maybe you have a different rendition of it, but you're struggling with a similar thing.

So Jessica wrote, my 12-year-old son has experienced a great deal of anxiety over the last year

due to a number of changes that are beyond our control. House moves, moving countries, that's a big one,

right? Joining a new school, COVID,

that's been a big one for a lot of our kids.

He has spectacular meltdowns,

and he can say things that are very hard to hear,

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