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. Well hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today I want to talk to you about a topic that is always near and dear to my heart

because it's something that I have struggled

with my whole life and I have three kids that have different renditions of the

struggle with social anxiety and I think a lot of times parents think social anxiety is probably one of the easiest things to understand

Compared to the complexities of O. C. D and the strange themes that pop up that might get missed and how do you approach those

themes and people are like oh social anxiety okay I get it they're having a problem

with being social I know what to do with this one.

And actually, unfortunately, a lot of times we make a lot of mistakes and we make social

anxiety worse.

And so today I want to talk about what some of those might be, that we might be unintentionally doing,

so that we can really improve our approach with our kids because social anxiety is such a sensitive

topic, it impacts the self-esteem, and if we understand a little bit about where

our kids are coming from and what things tend to help and what things tend to make them feel

worse, you're going to be ahead of the game.

But before we get started, a couple of things.

I want to thank No CD for sponsoring this episode.

No CD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available luckily in the

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