PSP: 267 Helping Kids with Emetophobia | The Fear of Throwing Up with Dawn Huebner
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It might surprise some people that the fear of throwing up, Emetophobia, is one of the most common anxiety and OCD themes. For those of us raising a child with it, it isn’t surprising at all!
Sometimes this fear is triggered by an event or experience, but often it is the imagination alone that causes this immobilizing concern.
We all throw up and many of us see others throw up, but we are able to move past it without too much residual impact.
When you have Emetophobia you get stuck. Stuck worrying that you might get sick. Stuck worrying that others around you might get sick. Stuck analyzing, avoiding and ruminating. A vicious cycle that can keep people from living a full life.
I invited Dr. Dawn Huebner to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast to discuss how we can help our kids work through Emetophobia. In her book, Facing Mighty Fears about Throwing Up (Dr. Dawn's Mini Books about Mighty Fears), she teaches kids ages 6-10 years old skills to overcome these struggles.
Dr. Dawn’s other Mini Books about Mighty Fears:
Facing Mighty Fears About Trying New Things
Facing Mighty Fears About Health
Facing Mighty Fears About Animals
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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 another episode of the AT Parenting's Revival Podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Today I want to talk about something that is, unfortunately, near and dear to my heart, |
| 0:34.3 | not so much dear, but very near, and that is the fear of throwing up, a metaphobia. |
| 0:39.4 | That is a very common struggle with a lot of kids who have anxiety or OCD, and it is |
| 0:44.7 | super common in my household. |
| 0:46.5 | I grew up with a metaphobia. |
| 0:48.7 | It's under control, but I can still feel it rumbling inside of me when my kids are having |
| 0:54.4 | their own struggles with the metaphobia, and my daughter and my son struggle with it. |
| 1:00.3 | My daughter especially, I feel like, has a big struggle with it, it's one of her core issues. |
| 1:06.5 | I was very excited to invite Dr. Dawn Hebner back onto the show. |
| 1:11.4 | She's been on quite a few times, actually, in the past few months, because we've been |
| 1:15.8 | talking about her mini-series. |
| 1:19.2 | She's got mini-books about mighty fears, and so she was on the podcast to talk about |
| 1:24.1 | the fear of facing new things, or trying new things, facing fears about health, facing |
| 1:28.6 | fears about animals, and this is kind of a last in the series, although it's the first |
| 1:32.9 | book she said she wrote in this series, is how to face the fear of throwing up. |
| 1:38.5 | You probably have heard her books because she is the author of what to do when your brain |
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