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.

We're actually going to be talking about you today.

This is kind of the main topic for today is, are you

losing yourself while pairing a child with anxiety or OCD? It is a very, very easy thing to do. And I'm going to talk about different ways we can lose

ourselves and how to get ourselves back. I know it sounds so weird but it is

really important because it's a long journey

raising a child with anxiety or a CD and it goes on and on and on and

and there'll be ups and there'll be downs but if you lose yourself and the fabric of who you are, eventually it'll be really hard to retrieve that.

And you'll be kind of a shell of a person.

I guess that sounds really dark, but it's true, but I mean the positive spin on this is it doesn't have to be that way and there are ways to prevent that or to get yourself back.

But we don't want to be a shell of a person because we are so immersed in our

child's anxiety or CD that we have lost ourselves.

We're going to talk all about that, what it looks like, how to be a caring parent while still

finding yourself and keeping yourself.

Before we get started, though, I have a couple of announcements.

One I want to thank no CD, because no CD sponsors this episode and they offer affordable, effective, convenient

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