PSP: 259 Helping Kids with Fears of Animals & Insects with Dawn Huebner
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Many kids have fears of animals and insects, but for some it can dominate their lives. They might worry about seeing the feared animal or insect. They might go out of their way to avoid an encounter. It might be an all consuming fear that impacts the things they love and enjoy.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast,I invited author and psychologist, Dawn Huebner to help us learn how to help our kids with these fears.
Dawn Huebner is the author of the popular books, What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck and What to Do When You Worry too Much. Check out her new mini books on mighty fears that include Facing Mighty Fears About Animals.
Other resource:
How to Not Accommodate Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD with Eli Lebowitz
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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 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.5 | I hope you're doing well. |
| 0:30.7 | I hope things are going okay at your house. |
| 0:33.2 | Today, I want to talk to you and offer you some help for fears, and in particular, we're |
| 0:38.5 | going to be talking about fears of animals and bugs and insects, super common for our kids |
| 0:46.5 | to have those struggles. |
| 0:48.0 | And if they have anxiety or OCD, sometimes it's at another level, becomes a really big deal. |
| 0:55.4 | And so I have invited Don Hebner onto the show. |
| 0:59.2 | She is. |
| 1:00.2 | We probably have seen her books, if not own some of them. |
| 1:03.4 | She is the author of what to do when your brain gets stuck and what to do when you worry |
| 1:08.0 | too much, along with lots of other books that I love and that are on my shelf. |
| 1:13.1 | I have had her on the podcast before, and I invited her back because she has a new series |
| 1:18.2 | out, which I really love. |
| 1:20.3 | These are very cool. |
| 1:21.3 | They're called Dr. Don's mini books about mighty fears. |
| 1:25.2 | It's very cute, and there are four that have come out, which I'll talk about in a minute. |
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