Staying Present When Your Child’s OCD Is Loud
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When your child’s OCD gets loud, it’s so easy to get swept into the panic, the questions, the intensity.
But the calmer and more grounded you stay, the faster they can settle.
In today’s episode I’m breaking down how to stay present when everything in you wants to react — and why this one skill changes the tone of your entire home.
If you want deeper support in staying steady during your child’s anxiety or OCD storms, my new series will walk you through it step-by-step.
Register for free at www.atparentingsurvivalseries.com
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.2 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survella podcast. Today, we're going to be talking |
| 0:28.5 | about one of the biggest gifts we can give our childs and actually ourselves as well, and that's |
| 0:34.3 | learning how to stay present when your child's OCD is loud. |
| 0:39.4 | And by child, I mean any age, even an adult child. |
| 0:42.8 | As a parent, it's really hard to not lose our cool, to not get dysregulated, and to stay |
| 0:51.5 | in that moment and be present. |
| 0:53.2 | We're going to talk about how to do that throughout this episode. |
| 0:56.7 | But before I get started, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:00.7 | NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the U.S. |
| 1:05.3 | and outside of the U.S. |
| 1:06.5 | You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child. |
| 1:13.1 | Just go to treat myoced.com. |
| 1:15.7 | That's treat myoced.com. |
| 1:17.6 | I'll leave a link in the show notes as well. |
| 1:19.7 | And as you probably heard at the beginning of this episode, I also have my free anchor series that's coming up in the next couple of weeks. |
| 1:27.3 | How to be an effective |
| 1:28.1 | anchor to support your child with anxiety and OCD. And that is for a parent who has a child of any |
| 1:35.1 | age dealing with any issue around anxiety and OCD. We're going to go more in depth in that free series. |
| 1:41.9 | There's three on-demand videos where I walk you through step by |
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