PSP: 399: Why the Core Fear Matters 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
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Does it really matter if you understand the core fear related to your child’s anxiety or OCD. The short answer - yes.
Of course we will treat anxiety with anxiety tools regardless of theme or core fear. And we will treat OCD as OCD regardless of theme or core fear. But understanding the core fear in anxiety or OCD is like the difference between using a compass to get where you are going versus a GPS.
Core fears help us identify and pinpoint exactly what fuels all the anxiety and OCD themes; what fuels all the compulsions. What fuels all the discomfort. When we know the core fear we have the upper hand against anxiety or OCD.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I outline why it is helpful to know the core fear of our child’s anxiety or OCD and what steps to take to discover them!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:11.9 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.4 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.4 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today is actually a special |
| 0:29.7 | podcast because I'm actually recording the video of this as well. We're going to try doing a little |
| 0:35.4 | bit of video with the podcast and we'll see how it goes. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm used to just being able to record this over and over again. |
| 0:42.5 | So we'll see. |
| 0:44.1 | Today I want to talk to you about understanding the core fear in your child's anxiety or OCD and why it matters. |
| 0:59.1 | Because it does matter. And the reason why I thought to do this episode is because I just got done with my free series. I record these way ahead of time. |
| 1:07.4 | It's November 20th, but this isn't coming out until like, I think New Year's Eve. |
| 1:12.4 | So happy New Year's Eve. |
| 1:13.7 | So not for a while. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm very ahead of the game, which is awesome. |
| 1:17.3 | But I just finished my free series survival tools. |
| 1:20.3 | And I got quite a few questions about do we really need to know the core fear? |
| 1:26.8 | Why is the core and fear important? I mean, |
| 1:29.8 | does it really make a difference in how we're going to approach our kids' anxiety or OCD anyway? |
| 1:34.9 | And it does make a difference. It is really important. If you don't know it, you can still get by. |
| 1:40.8 | But I wanted to talk today about why it is so important and going through |
| 1:47.5 | how we use that core fear to give our child's struggles some momentum so that they can crush |
| 1:54.6 | their anxiety or OCD. |
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