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AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family

PSP: 402: Knowing When to Step Back: Supporting Your Child with OCD or Anxiety Without Overpushing

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Trying to help a child with OCD or anxiety is not an easy task. One reason for that is because we are not steering the ship. This is not our battle. This is not our struggle. Although trust me, I know we have our own struggles on this journey raising a child with OCD or anxiety.

But, we don’t get to override our child’s autonomy to smooth things out. I wish we could.

The single hardest part about raising children with OCD or anxiety is we have to follow their pace. We have to follow their level of engagement. If we overstep, over push or over cheerlead, we risk shutting them down.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how to know when to step back and how to support your child while their foot is firmly on the brake.

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This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast,

0:06.5

where you get help and guidance

0:08.1

through the chaos of parenting a child

0:10.0

with anxiety or OCD.

0:12.1

This show is for educational purposes

0:14.3

and is not intended to replace the guidance

0:16.5

of a qualified professional.

0:18.6

Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels.

0:22.4

Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

0:27.8

Today, I want to talk to you about a really important part of our journey as a parent,

0:32.6

raising a child with OCD or anxiety, and that is knowing when to step back, supporting your child without

0:40.8

pushing your child. And that's a hard dance to do. Trust me, I know. And I want to talk about

0:50.8

how do we do that effectively or at least show up with intentions of doing that

0:58.0

as effectively as we can because it's not plug in play. It's not, you know, read a book and do

1:05.1

exactly what you're being told to do regardless of your child's anxiety or OCD issues. It's nuanced.

1:12.7

And I'm going to talk about finding that balance and how to know when are you pushing too much,

1:18.8

which can threaten our child's ability to feel hopeful, to feel motivated, can crush self-esteem.

1:27.1

We'll get into all the ramifications of us pushing too hard,

1:30.4

but also some of us don't push enough. And so that's a conundrum of where is that sweet spot and how do

1:37.7

I find it? And a lot of us miss it. But if you're missing it all of the time, then we can do

1:44.1

long-term damage and we don't want that. So we're going to talk all about it. But if you're missing it all of the time, then we can do long-term damage and we don't want

1:45.5

that. So we're going to talk all about it and find that sweet spot for you. But before I get

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