Each week Dawn answers a frequently asked question about child and teen anxiety. Dawn spent thirty years working with, writing about, and supporting parents and children in her private clinical practice and now as the owner of Child Anxiety Support, a membership for parents of anxious kids and teens.
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AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and Child OCD Expert
The truth is we are all surviving parenting one day at a time. Add child anxiety or childhood OCD and it can be overwhelming! On The AT Parenting Survival Podcast your host Natasha Daniels will ride the Parental roller coaster with you. She will teach you parenting approaches to help child anxiety and OCD, she’ll give you a new perspective on common parenting problems and will re-invigorate your sparkle for parenting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is social anxiety disorder caused by trauma and bullying?
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द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 359: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Children | Dr. Tamar Black
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been a helpful therapy modality for many people with anxiety and OCD. Often parents wonder how this therapy can be adapted to help children. I invited Dr. Tamar Black to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast to explain what Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is and how it can help our kids with anxiety and OCD…
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Can someone grow out of having an anxiety disorder?
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PSP 358: Psychologist Lori Long Talks About Life with Social Anxiety
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One of the hardest parts about social anxiety is the feeling you are the only one with these struggles. It actually feeds into the disorder quite well. It is a story that many of us with social anxiety tell ourselves. No one struggles like you do. No one thinks the way you do. No one would understand. When I had Lori and her colleagues, Katie and M…
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How can I get my anxious child to use their coping tools?
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This week we discuss "coping" and how sometimes parents misunderstand what that means.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 357: How to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem with Jesse LeBeau
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Self-esteem and self-confidence can play a big role in our child’s journey with anxiety and OCD. When our anxious kids struggle they can feel overwhelmed with emotions of shame and isolation. They might beat themselves up for being different or for having difficulties. Self-esteem can also play an integral role in how our kids approach anxiety or O…
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How can I tell if my child's anxiety is general or situational?
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The person who asked this question is trying to figure out if the anxiety she's seeing in her child is just due to a specific situation or a sign that her child is more generally anxious. I share some thoughts about how to figure that out.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 356: Are You a Punching Bag for Your Child’s Anxiety and OCD Overwhelm?
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As parents we are often in the line of fire when it comes to our child’s overwhelm. When dealing with anxiety or OCD we can feel like we are our child’s punching bag. The truth is, physiologically our kids are often looking for a push-pull conversation. It is easier to see you as enemy #1 rather than facing anxiety and OCD head on. In this week’s A…
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How can we tell when it's anxiety and when it's a preference?
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Figuring out when to intervene with our anxious child is tricky and it's personal. Here are some questions to consider as you're trying to figure it out.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 355: Handling Parenting Moments When You Lose it!
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We all lose it at one time or another. Parents are human. You are human. We inevitably will lose our cool and say or do things that we regret. But those parenting moments hold untapped clues to what is overwhelming us. Those moments hold wisdom, if we are able to move past the shame to see the insight underneath. In this week’s AT Parenting Surviva…
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How do I make my anxious child change?
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Parents reach out for help because they need their anxious child to learn to not be anxious or to handle their anxiety more effectively. But we can't make our anxious child or even want to change. What we can do is focus on our own change. In this week's episode, we dig into this uncomfortable truth.…
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PSP 354: A New Way to Help Your Child with OCD at Home
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As parents we are often desperate to provide our children with tools to help their OCD. We might scour the internet trying to find an OCD specialist; not an easy feat. Or if we are lucky enough to have found an OCD specialist, we might want to know what we can do at home to fill in the gaps. I often get asked, what does that look like? How can I he…
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What do you do when a child is still as anxious if not more anxious of something after exposing them to it?
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This question from a listener gives us the opportunity to talk about some of the details we need to know to appropriate address our individual child's anxiety, especially around things like school refusal.
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PSP 353: Social Anxiety and Bullying
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There is a strong relationship between social anxiety and bullying. Research has shown that a clinically significant amount of people with social anxiety have experienced bullying. Often children have a genetic predisposition to anxiety, but environmental stressors, like bullying, blossom that genetic seed. In this week’s episode of the AT Parentin…
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This week I explain why it almost doesn't matter whose anxiety started the anxious patterns in the family because the intervention is the same -- at least to start. Also if you'd like to sign up for the free webinar "Tell Me It Will Be OK: How to Talk About Your Child's Anxiety (without making things worse)" just head here: ChildAnxietySupport.com/…
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PSP 352: Helping Kids Who are Worried About Growing Up
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It is common for some kids to worry about growing up. There are many unknowns that can feel overwhelming. But for some kids this fear is all consuming. For these kids their worries about growing up turn into a daily effort to prevent the inevitable from happening. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore the many anxiety and OCD theme…
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When should I be concerned about my anxious child?
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This week we explore parental concern in regards to child anxiety and what it means if the child is anxious and what if it means if they aren't (or at least if they aren't clinically anxious). Remember to reach out to me if you have further questions!द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 351: How to Help Anxious Kids through Stories and Books
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There are many creative ways to help anxious kids. One way is through storytelling. Children can immerse themselves into stories and learn along the way. Stories can help normalize the experience of having anxiety and develop problem-solving skills in a more non-directive way. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk to Dr. Amy Neeren ab…
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How do I help my anxious child feel heard and understood?
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This week we talk about how we can support our anxious child and help them feel validated without joining them in their anxiety.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 350: Is it Game Over if Your Child Doesn’t Want to Work on Anxiety or OCD?
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It can feel like there is nothing you can do if your child refuses to work on anxiety or OCD. But in reality, that is far from true. We are one piece of the puzzle when it comes to our child’s anxiety or OCD, but it is still an important piece. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival podcast I talk about our role and what areas we can work on regardle…
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We talk about what panic attacks are; discuss panic disorder; and get into some of the controversy and complications around the issue.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 349: Do you Feel Isolated Trying to Help Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD?
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Raising a child with anxiety or OCD can be a very lonely experience. It can make us feel removed from our friends and family. It can even put a wedge between partners. The more isolated you feel on this journey, the harder it is to help your child. Why? Because your level of support is directly tied to your child’s long term progress. In this week’…
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Should I homeschool my anxious child?
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I get a lot of questions about homeschooling for kids with social anxiety or separation anxiety. Get my take on this week's episode of The Child Anxiety FAQ!द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 348: Does Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD Trigger Your Childhood Wounds?
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Dealing with our child’s anxiety or OCD is taxing enough, but sometimes there is another layer of stress. Often our child’s struggles can trigger something deep within us. A childhood wound, a flashback, a remnant of something that has remained dormant within us. When these old wounds are triggered we might have an exaggerated response to our child…
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We talk about what you can do FOR YOU to best help your anxious child with a promise to get into more specifics in future episodes.
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PSP 347: Do You and Your Partner Fight Over Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD?
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Raising a child with Anxiety and OCD is hard enough, but when you and your partner are not on the same page, it can be even harder. It is common for one partner in the relationship to view their child’s anxiety or OCD differently. Couples can argue over a ton of things including how to handle their child’s struggles and if and when they should get …
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PSP 346: Losing Yourself While Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD
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It is easy to lose yourself while trying to parent a child with anxiety or OCD. In fact, it can be hard not to. We might have ongoing thoughts about how to help our child. We might be consumed with worry about our child’s future. We might have dropped activities, friends and hobbies we once found joy in. Our relationships might have taken a permane…
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What are some signs that a child has anxiety?
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On this week's episode I share common signs that a child might be struggling with anxiety. I talk about somatic symptoms and behavioral symptoms and how to tell the difference between productive anxiety and anxiety that's become problematic.द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 345: Balancing Act of Pulling Back Anxiety & OCD Accommodations
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When our child has anxiety or OCD, we are often providing some accommodations that inadvertently grow the problem. As we learn about anxiety and OCD, we also learn about the importance of pulling back those accommodations. This is not a black and white process. It takes time, it takes judgment and it takes discernment in the moment. In this week’s …
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Does an anxious parent make an anxious child?
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Short answer? No. Long answer? That's what this episode is all about!द्वारा Dawn Friedman MSEd
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PSP 344: The Relationship Between Misophonia, Misokinesia, and OCD
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OCD loves to hang out with other issues. There are many comorbid conditions that go with OCD. Misophonia and Misokinesia are two of them. Does your child feel rage over certain sounds, including mouth and nose sounds? Does your child get overwhelmed by certain motions, like a foot tapping or knee bouncing? Those are common struggles people with Mis…
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How can I treat my child's anxiety naturally?
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I usually get a version of this question asking about diet, supplements, or herbal remedies. I explain why I'm not the right person to answer THAT and why I am the right person to talk about other forms of natural child anxiety treatment.
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PSP 343: Are We Making Our Child’s Social Anxiety Worse?
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Inadvertently many of us make our child’s social anxiety worse. It can seem, on the surface, that social anxiety is an obvious issue with an obvious solution. But social anxiety is much more complicated than most people think. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I outline common mistakes we make that unintentionally make our child or teen’…
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