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 have a fantastic guest who has been through so much herself and has the most

resilience I've probably ever seen in a human being. And she teaches

how parents can become mentally strong and help their kids become mentally strong. And she is

just a really inspiring person. But before we get into that, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. NoCD offers

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So before we dive into our conversation today, I want to introduce you to Dr.

Christy Buda Kamara, which I'm probably mispronouncing her last name because I'm notorious,

but we'll call her Dr. B.

That's what she goes by.

And you're going to hear her own incredible story of loss for the last two decades.

I'll let her tell her story.

And she is a psychiatric nurse practitioner.

She has her doctorate.

But she also has such lived experience raising her own children with various issues, which she'll hear her talk about, and her own approach to how to navigate this world in a mentally strong way.

And mentally strong, as she'll talk about, doesn't mean just grit and

sticking with it. It's different, much different than that. So without further ado, here is my

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