PSP 51: Learning How to Find the Core Fear Behind Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Your child is refusing to go to school, but you don’t know why. Your child is up all night in a perpetual state of panic, but nothing seems to calm them down. Your child is tapping things and turning the light switch on and off three times, but you have no idea why. Knowing your child has anxiety or OCD is different from knowing what is behind your child’s anxiety or OCD.***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.comInterested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Click below to join us!http://www.atparentingcommunity.comSign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Take one of my online classes:To view the entire online school library, go to:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCDhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/reduce-child-anxiety/To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/For a list of my books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAJoin the fun on my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers***

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0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:17.5	Podcast. I hope you're having a great week. I want to talk to you today about finding out your child's core beer. Now you might
0:26.6	be saying Natasha this is really obvious I really don't need to listen to a
0:30.9	podcast about how to figure out what my child's afraid of because I deal with that on a daily basis.
0:36.0	Yes and no.
0:38.0	Most of us know what the front burner issue is.
0:42.0	We know that our child is refusing to go to school.
0:44.6	We know that our child is afraid to go to sleep at night.
0:48.1	Or if our child has OCD, we know that our child is washing their hands non-stop or they're overwiping or they're tapping in
0:57.3	threes. We know those things but do we go down the rabbit hole and figure out what the core fear is?
1:06.0	And without that, really therapy and any kind of approach that I talk about, or any therapist talks about isn't going to work or
1:15.3	is going to take a much longer time because you're not addressing the main issue, you're
1:20.7	addressing the symptoms. I kind of equate it to like this octopus. Just
1:28.3	stay with me for a minute. You know you're whacking at all the arms and maybe you conquer one arm but then the seven
1:35.9	other arms that you haven't dealt with are popping up and you see them as seven or
1:40.2	eight different problems instead of different arms of the same beast.
1:45.2	And instead of hitting the arms, go for the head and kill the beast.
1:50.7	Okay, now it's starting to sound violent. But it's the only analogy I've got
1:56.6	right now so you just have to go with me. That's how a lot of anxiety and OCD is
2:00.9	treated. People are focusing on the arms and not
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