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AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

PSP 255 How to Handle New OCD Themes

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

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

OCD is often like whack a mole. Just when you get one OCD theme under control, BOOM, another one creeps in to take its place.


This can be disheartening, especially if you don’t have the right mindset. OCD is an octopus and its tentacles are the themes. It doesn’t matter what tentacle is causing disruption, it’s the octopus that’s the problem.


Often OCD will present new themes when our kids are making progress with old ones. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a step backwards, sometimes it is a desperate octopus looking for a new angle.


In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how to handle new OCD themes and how to use it as an opportunity to strengthen what your child already knows.


🌸 Do you have a child with sensory issues as well? 


For a limited time my friend, Alisha an OT from Your Kids Table is opening up her course: Rise with Sensory. 


It’s available for a few more days. You can learn more here.


This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to

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0:00.0

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

0:08.1

the 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

Well, hello there, and welcome to our episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

0:29.4

Today I want to talk to you about something that impacts really any parent who is raising

0:34.3

a child with OCD, and that is the whack-a-mole situation of, oh, shoot, here's another

0:41.5

theme.

0:42.5

Oh, man, here's another discomfort.

0:44.6

Oh, my gosh, here's another intrusive thought, right?

0:49.1

That could be very disheartening.

0:51.5

And OCD very often will change themes, and if it hasn't yet, it very likely will, and

0:59.0

I'm not saying that to be upsetting or to cause you any stress.

1:02.7

I actually want to navigate, navigate you through when your child shifts an OCD theme

1:09.5

or when a new one pops up, because there's a lot of things that we can do within those

1:14.8

few weeks, when it first starts, that can be very, very effective long term.

1:20.9

So stay tuned, that's what we're going to be talking about.

1:23.2

But before I get started, I do want to give a thank you to NoCD for continuing to sponsor

1:28.3

this episode.

1:29.8

NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, they're available in the U.S., and

1:35.3

outside of the U.S., and you can schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if NoCD

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