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 their episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today I want to talk to you about something that I feel like can resonate with all of you,

any parent actually.

And that is how to let go of how life should be, whatever that may mean to you.

We're going to go into what that might mean to you and how life actually is and how

when we do that in our head, whether it's about our child, it could also be about our partner

or it could be about our job, it could be about our life or our family, what it should be

and not celebrating what it is because the image of where we want to be and the image of

the reality or the reflection of the reality are incongruent.

The reflection is not the same and so we're disappointed, we're frustrated,

we're striving to get that to that perfection and we feel like we can never reach it.

I want to talk about that because that is a real buzzkill in life.

And you know, it's something I've been struggling with myself lately and so that's kind of why I

picked the topic. But before I get started, we're going to dive into this.

In depth, I want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. NoCD offers affordable,

effective, convenient therapy and the cool thing is they are available all throughout the US

and even outside of the US and it's virtual so it's very easy to sign up and get your child

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