When Helping Hurts: Navigating Burnout in OCD Parenting
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When you’re parenting a child with OCD, burnout can sneak in quietly—and then hit hard. You’re doing all the things: managing compulsions, pulling back OCD accommodations, showing up for exposures, and trying to keep everything afloat. But what happens when your own emotional gas tank is empty?
In this episode, I’m talking about what burnout really looks like in OCD parenting, why it’s so common, and how to start refilling your cup without guilt. Because helping your child shouldn’t mean losing yourself in the process.
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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 atyparenting |
| 0:38.9 | Survival Series.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. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting |
| 1:14.0 | Survival Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you about something that many, if not all of us, |
| 1:21.1 | go through at some point when we're parenting our kids with OCD. That's burnout. |
| 1:31.9 | Burnout is something that can debilitate you. It's something that can slow you down at the least and put you on your back at the worst. |
| 1:40.5 | And it's something that we are at risk of experiencing multiple times on this journey |
| 1:47.1 | raising our kids with OCD. And so I want to talk about how to navigate burnout, how to know |
| 1:54.0 | that you're in it. You may know that you're already in it, how to look for the early warning |
| 1:58.0 | signs. And also, what do you do when you're feeling it? |
| 2:03.2 | Because periodically, you're going to get there. |
| 2:06.4 | And that's human. |
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