Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you can 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 another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Hope you're doing well.

I just got back actually from Denmark and the chat lag is kicking my butt more than ever

before.

So, yeah, I mean it's on a couple of days home and I'm still really tired, but not too tired

to talk to you and dive into a new topic that I haven't covered before.

So today I want to talk to you about the difference between a gut instinct or intuition

versus anxiety or OCD because they can kind of show up in similar ways and I have like

this jet lag fog so I went into the AT Parenting community and I asked the members for topic

ideas for my podcast on YouTube channel and one of them was this topic of how do I help

my child differentiate a teenager, almost a young adult, but how do I help them differentiate

between their gut instinct and intuition versus anxiety or OCD or magical thinking about

what a great topic because as parents in general, we do want to teach our kids to trust

their gut, follow their intuition, but what do you do when anxiety and OCD can mimic

those things?

And so it's not an easy thing to differentiate, but it's a great thing to dive into and to

discuss because there are some things that are different depending on whether it is your

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