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.

I really try to provide you with some topics that are for you, and I know that sometimes it's

hard to get out of the loop of thinking about how to help your child with anxiety or OCD,

and focus that attention on you, and I hope that sometimes if you are a frequent listener of

my podcast, that this kind of helps you shift your perspective sometimes and re-focus on what

do you need? What will be helpful for you? Because, you know, that old cheesy saying you have to

put on your own oxygen mask before you put it on your kids is legitimate. If you are running

on fumes and you are exhausted and you are overwhelmed, there's just no way you're going to be

able to help your kids in the way that you want to show up. And that is why I've invited my friend

and longtime colleague Dr. Andrea Durant to the show because she is, I have go to experts for

all various topics, and she is my go-to expert for a couple of different things, but one of them

is chronic pain. And it is so far out of my wheelhouse that I didn't think it even involved me

until I realized as I was diving through her own resources that I struggle greatly with chronic

pain. And the way I was approaching my chronic pain was not helpful at all. So we will dive into

that in a second and I hope that you find it helpful. And listen to it even if you think,

I don't think I have chronic pain, like I have some pain, but I don't think it's chronic. It is

helpful to listen to it because I didn't think I was in that category either until I realized that

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