PSP 226: Helping Kids with Sports Anxiety & OCD

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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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Anxiety and OCD love to glom onto everything our children love, including sports. It can make your child anxious, sick and panicky before a game, meet or competition. OCD can go one step further and create compulsions around the sport.

I invited Cali Werner, Anxiety and OCD Clinician, athlete and author of Anxious Annie, to come on to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast and talk to us about how to handle sports related anxiety and OCD struggles.

You can find Cali’s book Anxious Annie here.

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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 intended to replace the guidance of
0:16.5	a qualified professional.
0:18.0	Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.1	Hello there and welcome to the episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.6	Today is such a good topic, I can't believe I haven't talked about this before.
0:33.0	I've done, this is what, to episode 200 and I don't even know that it's not in front of me.
0:38.7	216 I think and no, I'm wrong, 226 and I have not talked about how anxiety and OCD show
0:47.0	up in sports, which is a really important topic because I've had that happen a lot of times
0:53.7	in my practice and I'm sure you've experienced this a lot probably in your house.
0:57.9	That anxiety and OCD like to glum onto anything our kids enjoy and that includes their
1:04.2	sports, their basketball, their soccer, their swimming, their track or their artistic abilities
1:12.0	like their dance competitions or their cheer competitions or their choir concerts or their
1:20.3	art exhibits.
1:21.3	I'm just, I'm trying to think of everything under the sun.
1:24.8	Even our kids have passions and they have to show up and it's competitive.
1:29.8	Maybe they have to perform whether it is athletically or even in a skill, anxiety and OCD show
1:36.9	up to and that is a bummer and a lot of times our kids wind up quitting because they can't
1:44.4	handle the anxiety and OCD that comes with it and that is why I was very excited when
1:50.0	Cali Werner put out a book called Anxious Annie and it was all about how anxiety shows
1:57.2	up with sports but even further it was very cool to invite her onto the show and be able
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