PSP 334: How to Help Our Kids with Anticipatory Anxiety

AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Parenting, Ocd Therapy, Ocd In Children, Ocd, Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes the anticipation of doing something can create even more anxiety than the event itself. Many of our anxious kids have anticipatory anxiety. Anticipatory anxiety can immobilize our kids and create a tsunami of anxious feelings.

Unfortunately anticipatory anxiety can grow anxiety to such a height that it becomes insurmountable when the day finally arrives.

So how can we take the wind out of anticipatory anxiety’s sails? It is key to learn how to catch those spirals before our kids spin out of control.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I discuss how anticipatory anxiety can show up as well as approaches you can use to reduce its impact on your child’s mental health.

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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.
0:22.1	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.2	Today I'm going to talk to you about how do you help your kids with anticipatory anxiety?
0:33.6	And there are some things that we can do as parents to coach our kids to handle that anticipatory
0:41.8	anxiety before they get so revved up that they are beyond help, you know what I mean?
0:47.7	Like they spiral and then it's like it's too far gone.
0:51.2	And I do feel like there are some approaches for anticipatory anxiety that are unique to
0:56.0	that particular fear when you're anticipating something happening.
1:00.3	And we're going to talk about what that is, how it can show up in a lot of anxious kids,
1:04.2	and then what to do about it as a parent, and really help foster those skills so that your
1:08.8	child can take that into adulthood and handle those stressors that we all have as human beings,
1:14.8	but when you have anxiety, you have it in a more acute, intense sort of way.
1:19.8	Before we get started, I want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode.
1:23.8	NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy.
1:27.6	They're available in the US, and thankfully outside of the US as well,
1:31.4	you can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if NoCD is the right fit for you and your child.
1:37.4	Just go to treatmyocd.com.
1:39.5	That's treatmyocd.com. I will leave a link in the show notes.
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