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 another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today, I want to talk to you about the relationship with sleep with anxiety and OCD and there is

this dysfunctional relationship between sleep and anxiety and OCD in general, not for everyone,

but more often than not, it does impact sleep for so many different reasons.

And so today, I want to talk about the relationship between sleep and anxiety and OCD,

you know, how to help with that, what causes that, and how to get started.

But before I start with that, I want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode.

NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy that are available in the US and outside

of the US. And you can schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if NoCD is a right fit for you

and your child. Just go to treatmyocd.com. That's treatmyocd.com. I will leave a link in the show

notes. Another announcement is that I am doing my self-care series for parents raising kids with

anxiety or OCD. It is free. If you've joined my series before, I do two of them twice a year,

and so I do my self-care series twice a year. I have a lot of people who take it every single time

because they tell me that it helps them refocus, recharge, and recenter so that they are 100%

for their kids with anxiety or OCD. The ironic thing is, when we focus on ourselves for a little

while, our kids actually wind up doing much, much better. Because in my self-care series, I don't

talk about eating chocolate and taking deep breaths and having bubble baths, although those things

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