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.

I hope you're doing well.

Today I want to talk about a topic that is so often discussed in all my online

communities that I thought it'd be so helpful to just do another episode on this.

And that is accommodation. So we're going to talk about what those are,

but how do we pull back anxiety and OCD accommodations,

our participation in our growing our child's anxiety or OCD

inadvertently? How do we do that without overwhelming them or without

feeling bad? Or where do we start? And that is a really common question when parents start to dive into the resources around

childhood anxiety and OCD and they start to get educated on the parental component of getting hooked into the anxiety or OCD.

And so a lot of times parents just pull that back all of a sudden because they're like,

oh my gosh, I didn't know this was bad

okay I'm pulling it back and that overwhelms the child and sometimes parents put their

hands up in the air and they're like I can't stop it and I don't know why this is happening but I don't have the tools to do it and so they they kind of keep it status quo so my hope for this episode is to

demystify what it means help you understand why it's important,

and then help you develop just a systematic approach to doing that

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