PSP 205: Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Cope with Grief or Trauma

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

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s hard enough to have anxiety or OCD, but what happens when your child is hit with grief or trauma? It can feel like a muddy, chaotic mess.

Unfortunately life happens and so do tragedies. Our kids are not immune to life happening to them, I wish they were.

Anxiety and OCD are opportunistic. It will feed off the grief and trauma by trying to grow new themes and new compulsions.

Our family has suffered an unthinkable and sudden loss. My children are grieving the loss of their father. That alone would be an insurmountable feat. But they are also quietly fighting off another more subtle battle. The battle of an opportunistic disorder that thrives in chaos and tries to piggyback on any of life’s struggles.

In this episode I talk about how to keep your head above water, while trying to make sure that your child’s anxiety or OCD doesn’t gain momentum.

***

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.

To join the AT Parenting Community go to: www.ATparentingcommunity.com

Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.com

https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172

Take one of my online classes:

To view the entire online school library, go to:

http://www.ATparentingSurvivalSchool.com

Classes include:

How to Crush Social Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-social-anxiety

Parenting Kids with OCD

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/child-ocd

Crush Moral OCD in Kids

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/moral-ocd

Teaching Kids to Crush Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-anxiety

Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviors

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behaviors

Helping Kids Who are Scared to Sleep

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/scared-to-sleep

Handling Sensory-Based Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/sensory-anxiety

Library of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)

http://www.ATparentingSurvivalschool.com/p/library

Let me become your $5 mini-coach. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/Atparentingsurvival

Ultimate 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.com

For a list of my books visit:

https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWA

Join the fun on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78

Other social places I hang out:

http://www.facebook.com/ATparentingsurvival

http://www.pinterest.com/ATparentingsurvival

http://www.twitter.com/atsurvival

http://www.instagram/ATparentingsurvival

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 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 intended to replace the guidance of
0:16.5	a qualified professional.
0:18.2	Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.5	Hello there, and welcome back.
0:26.4	I feel like I haven't talked to you forever.
0:29.5	So, this is my first episode since I lost my husband, and it's been a little scary
0:37.6	this morning taking a shower, actually putting makeup on for the first time, and like having
0:44.5	my, like, quote unquote, normal work day.
0:48.1	So thanks for joining me on this journey, and for those of you that are new to the podcast,
0:55.1	what is she talking about?
0:57.4	You can listen to the prior episode, episode 204, where I talk about the tragedy that happened
1:02.6	in my family, and I've taken two months off, and it feels like I took a day off.
1:07.8	It's crazy how it, like, time gets very warped when you're in grief.
1:14.1	And so I, like, literally feel like I took a few days off and not 100% ready to come
1:19.8	back to be honest.
1:21.7	But it's, I'm realizing that I don't think I'll ever feel ready.
1:27.4	And so it's one of those things that you just have to, as a lot of people tell you when
1:31.4	they are talking to you, you'd put one foot out of the other Natasha, you've got to
1:34.6	get back out there.
1:36.0	It'll never feel good.
	...

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.