PSP 285: How to Get Kids with Anxiety or OCD to Move Towards Their Fears
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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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As parents we want to encourage our kids with anxiety or OCD to move towards their fears and discomfort, not away from them. But how do we do that?
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the small steps we can take to help our kids move towards their fears. I also talk about effective ways to offer encouragement and instill the feeling of success.
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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. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Today I want to talk about something that everybody wants to know, especially if you're |
| 0:34.6 | having some struggles and that's, how do you get your kids with anxiety or OCD to move |
| 0:40.1 | towards their fears? |
| 0:42.2 | We might be feeling like you are trying to swim upstream with your child or you may be |
| 0:49.1 | feeling like you don't know what next steps to take or how to even start doing that. |
| 0:55.9 | So a lot of us are all over the place as far as what is causing that maybe a lack of |
| 1:02.1 | motion and progress and so I want to go into how to get even, maybe the most resistant |
| 1:08.4 | kid to start moving towards their fears, see what things we're doing that can maybe |
| 1:14.1 | hold back that issue and some things to try to get the ball rolling because that's really |
| 1:21.6 | the end result is we always want to get the ball rolling. |
| 1:24.7 | And maybe even talk about why we want to move them towards their fears to begin with |
| 1:29.8 | because some of you might be new listeners and new to this whole world and maybe thinking |
| 1:33.7 | well why don't we even have to get them to move towards their fears, isn't that kind |
| 1:37.0 | of counterintuitive? |
| 1:38.0 | And we'll talk a little bit about that as well. |
| 1:41.0 | But before we get started I do want to thank no CD for sponsoring this episode. |
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