PSP 362: The Use of Storytelling in Anxiety and OCD

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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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It can be hard to help kids navigate anxiety and OCD. Sometimes adding some creative ways to help validate, normalize and build skills to handle anxiety or OCD can be gold! One of my favorite ways to do that is through storytelling.

Storytelling is a powerful tool. It can help kids understand how anxiety and OCD work. It can help talk about anxiety or OCD without discussing it directly. It can be a creative outlet to process emotions around anxiety and OCD. It can even be used to problem solve and teach tools on how to crush anxiety and OCD.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I’ll discuss the many helpful uses to add the creative approach of storytelling to help kids with anxiety or OCD.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the
0:08.2	Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to
0:15.3	replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your host, child therapist Natasha
0:21.2	Daniels. Well hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting
0:25.9	This Repel Podcast.
0:27.6	Today I want to talk to you about one of my favorite bonus approaches that I do with kids who have anxiety or CD, whether it's my own children
0:35.8	or the kids that I've worked with in my practice and in my communities. And that is
0:40.2	storytelling. I love storytelling and if you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time,
0:49.0	really I am a storyteller. I mean that is really the first thing that I am. I feel like I'm a teacher and I'm a
0:55.8	storyteller. I was talking to my daughter about this the other day. We're talking about
0:59.7	she was complaining about her teacher and how some people, you know, have the skill, but they
1:06.6	don't have the talent to teach.
1:10.5	And so it brought up this whole conversation that I was talking to her about how just because you're good at something doesn't mean that your skilled at teaching.
1:17.0	It's kind of like how we promote teachers to administration or people who are really good at their job and then we promote them to like
1:25.8	management and their management is a totally different skill right and so it doesn't it almost
1:31.8	makes no sense and I think the same thing with with
1:34.8	teaching but that's a total side note that some people just innately are good
1:38.1	teachers and I was saying to her you know I am much more of a teacher than I am a
1:43.0	a therapist. I love teaching and that's why I think I love anxiety and OCD
1:46.8	because it's really teaching skills. It's teaching the way to think.
1:51.9	And so I love helping you guys because I love teaching
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