PSP: 398: Handling Your Child’s Anxiety, OCD and Christmas Break
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Just because it is the holiday season doesn’t mean our child’s anxiety and OCD take a break. The holidays can stir up a variety of issues for our kids depending on their particular anxiety and OCD themes.
Down time can cause more anxious or intrusive thoughts. The whirlwind of parties, overstimulation and no routine can make emotions run high. It can be tricky to deal with contamination, restrictive eating, panic attacks and upsetting thoughts around relatives and friends.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I’m exploring some common struggles kids with anxiety or OCD have over Christmas and winter break and what you can do to reduce these issues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of |
| 0:08.9 | parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to |
| 0:15.4 | replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.4 | and welcome to another AT parenting survival podcast. Today is Christmas Eve for many of you, |
| 0:31.4 | and for most of you, it is Christmas break, depending on where you live in the world. |
| 0:40.7 | Or, well, you've been on Christmas break, but you're about to have a few more weeks. |
| 0:48.4 | And that can be, that can be challenging in some ways for our kids with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:57.6 | And I want to talk about how to handle your child's anxiety or OCD throughout this Christmas break and how to tweak things in a way to optimize some success. So everybody gets some relaxation, some resetting |
| 1:04.1 | before you start the new year. But before I get started, I do want to thank No CD for sponsoring |
| 1:09.6 | this episode. NoCD offers affordable, |
| 1:12.8 | effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the U.S. and outside the U.S. |
| 1:17.5 | You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child. |
| 1:24.0 | Just go to Treat MyOCD.com. That is Treat MyOed.com. I'll also leave a link in the show notes. |
| 1:31.5 | Okay. So I'm sure you're probably pretty busy today. But whenever you're listening to this, |
| 1:38.8 | maybe you're catching up or Christmas already happened. But I want to talk about some common |
| 1:43.9 | struggles that I notice in my own kids, in the kids |
| 1:47.9 | that I helped in my practice, and even in the AT parenting community, these are really |
| 1:53.1 | common struggles that a lot of our kids with anxiety or OCD have. |
| 1:57.0 | Some of them are things that kids in general struggle with, but the volume is higher when it |
| 2:02.5 | comes to our kids. So I know for us, we have a lot of these struggles that I'm about to list. |
| 2:09.1 | So I want to dive into the struggles and then after the break, I'm going to talk about some |
| 2:12.6 | concrete ways that you can, you know, just set things up for success. Remember, we don't have |
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