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 something that honestly I struggle with all the time and this is one of those like throw

myself under the bus episodes where I get to like expose my struggles and what I do to help myself knowing that I'm not alone.

And I guess that's the beautiful thing that I have doing the work that I do is I know I'm not alone I know that other people think

this way and so I can be brave enough to vocalize it in a podcast episode but it

is really hard to tackle the thought or the concept to love the child that you have

versus the child you wanted.

Even that title is really hard to say, right?

And yet so many of us who are parenting kids

with mental health issues have those feelings.

And those feelings do need to be

Validated normalized and explored because you are not alone if you have had those thoughts

So we're gonna get all into it today,

and I hope that you find it helpful.

But before we get started a couple of announcements,

the first one is I want to thank No C.D.

For sponsoring this episode.

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