PSP 205: Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Cope with Grief or Trauma

It’s hard enough to have anxiety or OCD, but what happens when your child is hit with grief or trauma? It can feel like a muddy, chaotic mess.  Unfortunately life happens and so do tragedies. Our kids are not immune to life happening to them, I wish they were.  Anxiety and OCD are opportunistic. It will feed off the grief and trauma by trying to grow new themes and new compulsions. Our family has suffered an unthinkable and sudden loss. My children are grieving the loss of their father. That alone would be an insurmountable feat. But they are also quietly fighting off another more subtle battle. The battle of an opportunistic disorder that thrives in chaos and tries to piggyback on any of life’s struggles.  In this episode I talk about how to keep your head above water, while trying to make sure that your child’s anxiety or OCD doesn’t gain momentum. *** This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. To join the AT Parenting Community go to: www.ATparentingcommunity.com Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.com Sign up for my weekly email newsletter: https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172 Take one of my online classes: To view the entire online school library, go to: http://www.ATparentingSurvivalSchool.com Classes include: How to Crush Social Anxiety http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-social-anxiety Parenting Kids with OCD  http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/child-ocd Crush Moral OCD in Kids http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/moral-ocd Teaching Kids to Crush Anxiety http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviors http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behaviors Helping Kids Who are Scared to Sleep http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/scared-to-sleep Handling Sensory-Based Anxiety http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/sensory-anxiety Library of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays) http://www.ATparentingSurvivalschool.com/p/library Let me become your $5 mini-coach. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/Atparentingsurvival Ultimate list of helpful anxiety products: https://www.ATparentingsurvival.com/reduce-child-anxiety/  To join my private Facebook group visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/ Interested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Get on the waitlist: http://www.atparentingcommunity.com For a list of my books visit: https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWA Join the fun on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78 Other social places I hang out: http://www.facebook.com/ATparentingsurvival http://www.pinterest.com/ATparentingsurvival http://www.twitter.com/atsurvival http://www.instagram/ATparentingsurvival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.