When You’re More Motivated Than Your Child to Fight OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

Parenting, Ocd Therapy, Ocd In Children, Ocd, Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You’re reading the books, watching the videos, and learning everything you can to help your child with OCD. But your child? They’re shutting down, avoiding exposures, or flat-out refusing to engage. Sound familiar?

In this episode, I talk about what’s really going on when you’re more motivated than your child to fight their OCD — and how to respond in a way that builds connection and long-term progress. You’ll learn what not to do, how to shift your approach, and why your role is still incredibly powerful even when your child is stuck.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of
0:08.9	parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to
0:15.4	replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there,
0:23.2	and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you
0:28.5	about something that many, many of us are dealing with or will deal with or have dealt with,
0:34.5	which is when you're more motivated than your child to fight OCD,
0:41.0	that's really common because we're not in the thick of things.
0:45.9	We are often able to see things intellectually and less emotionally, and we can see what needs to be done. And we can see the crisis in front of us.
0:58.1	And our child is often not on the same page, which then can be really frustrating. And ironically,
1:07.5	it can actually backfire and make our kids worse when we're more motivated than
1:13.1	they are. And we don't kind of autocorrect and watch our pace. We're going to talk all about
1:18.8	this. But before I jump in, I do want to thank No CD for sponsoring this episode. No CD offers
1:25.3	affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the
1:28.9	U.S. and outside of the U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if
1:34.4	no CD is a right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myocd.com. That is treat my
1:39.9	oCD.com. I'll leave a link in the show notes as well. I also want to mention that my free
1:46.4	anchor series is happening this week. So if you have not registered, you can do that at at
1:52.8	at parenting survival series.com. That is at parenting survival series.com. And we're going to
2:00.3	talk a lot today about how that series can help you And we're going to talk a lot today about how that series can help
2:03.7	you because there is, there are things that we can do, but it's around us and how we show up
2:12.5	and how we interact. And actually, you're going to hear today how that plays a huge impact on our kids'
2:20.0	journey with anxiety and OCD. And so let's just jump into it, shall we? All right. So it's rare,
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