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.

Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today, I want to talk to you about something that a lot of us deal with.

I feel like I say that a lot, and that is the balance of trying to help our kids with

their anxiety or OCD and trying to be their coach and also gauging their reactions, and

so I want to talk about when we're trying to call out our kids' anxiety or OCD, which

we should be doing as kind of their coach and their cheerleader, you know, I'm sorry

OCD is doing that for you, I'm sorry, anxiety is causing that for you because we want them

to connect that mind-body connection, we also want them to get that we realize that

they're struggling and that it's an anxiety and OCD struggle, but sometimes we get the

claws, we get the words, we get the acid, we get the full kitten caboodle, we get a very

nasty response, and so I want to talk to you about that today.

It will be a shorter podcast episode because I am opening up the AT Parenting Community

this week, which is not the week that you're listening to this, I record this a week ahead

of time, and it's a very busy Monday, and I'm like, oh my gosh, when am I going to do

my podcast?

And so I was thinking about what to talk about today because for some reason, I completely

space the fact that I actually have a podcast that I actually need to be doing, and I thought

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