When Anxiety and OCD Feel Contagious—How to Stay Grounded
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
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, it’s easy to feel like you’re absorbing all of their fear, stress, and urgency. Their nervous system is on high alert—and suddenly, so is yours. In this episode, we explore why anxiety and OCD can feel contagious in families, and how to stay grounded in the middle of your child’s emotional storm.
You’ll learn:
- Why your regulation matters more than your “fixing”
- Common triggers for parents (and what to do about them)
- Practical tools to help you stay centered when everything feels intense
This is not about perfection—it’s about presence.
Listen now and start becoming the steady anchor your child needs.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive in, I want to tell you about something that could change the way you parent your child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:06.7 | If you're like me and you're tired of walking on eggshells, feeling reactive, which I often do, or getting pulled into your child's emotional storms, which is super easy to happen, my free series had to be an effective anchor for your child with anxiety or CD. |
| 0:21.5 | That's for you. |
| 0:22.7 | Because in just a few short on-demand videos, I'm going to show you how to stay grounded, |
| 0:28.1 | respond with intention, and become the steady support your child actually needs. |
| 0:33.8 | It's a daily practice, and I'll show you how to do it. |
| 0:36.8 | Just register at atat Parenting SurvivalSeries.com. It's a daily practice and I'll show you how to do it. Just register at ATParenting |
| 0:38.9 | SurvivalSeries.com is totally free and it just might change everything. All right, on to this |
| 0:46.1 | week's episode. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:59.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survement |
| 1:14.0 | podcast. |
| 1:15.1 | Today, I want to talk to you about something that I think most of us experience at some point, |
| 1:20.4 | and that is the contagious feeling of anxiety and OCD, that we get stuck in our own triggers, |
| 1:30.5 | our own helplessness, our own overwhelm. And it's super hard to be grounded and to be an anchor for our kids when we are feeling |
| 1:38.9 | derailed as well. And it's understandable that we feel derailed because this is hard stuff. So we're going to dive |
| 1:46.7 | into that. But before we get started, I do want to thank No CD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:52.3 | NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy. And they're available in the U.S. |
| 1:57.0 | and outside of the U.S. And you can schedule a free 15 minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myocd.com. That is treat myoced.com. I'll leave a link in the show notes as well. And that can help us feel grounded because when we get the extra support and we have a therapist that supports us, it takes a little bit of the burden off of us. I know for me, knowing that my kids have their own anxiety and OCD therapist is very comforting. |
| 2:24.5 | And it takes a lot of the burden off of me. |
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