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 the episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Things are going well for you, kind of a busy day for me.

We are premiering to go to Washington, DC and kind of a short notice, it was not planning

on going, the time you listen to this, we'll be back, but I'm trying to record this before

I go because I'm trying to take care of future Natasha and that's a skill that we should

teach our kids and ourselves, like take care of our future selves, be kind to our future

selves and so I'm trying to take care of my future Natasha, the one that's currently

walking around the planet about now and get this done before him.

So today I want to talk to you about why rationalizing with OCD is not only not helpful at all,

but I'm going to talk to you about why it's harmful and none of us want to do things

that are going to harm our child's success with crushing anxiety or OCD, but a lot of

times we inadvertently do things and this topic, this episode is specific for OCD, not

anxiety and I can also touch on the difference in why it's not harmful at all in fact it's

a good tool to use with anxiety, I'll go into that a little bit today, but why it is

definitely harmful for OCD, but before we get started, if you've been looking for an

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