Child Anxiety

How to Calm Nighttime Anxiety Before Bed

Do you find that your child’s anxiety hits hardest at night? When the world quiets down, their mind might start racing with intrusive thoughts or worries. If they dread bedtime because of overthinking or fears, they’re not alone—and there are strategies that can help.

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PSP 410: Helping Your Child with OCD or Anxiety When They Feel Hopeless

Struggling with Anxiety and OCD can make kids feel hopeless. Hopelessness can lead to depression and a lack of motivation to work on their issues.

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PSP 409: When You See Anxiety or OCD in Others Kids

As you become more educated about anxiety and OCD, you most likely will start seeing it all around you. It can be hard to stomach seeing a child struggling with anxiety or OCD, especially if their parents aren’t aware of what they are truly dealing with.

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PSP 408: How to Use Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory with Kids with Anxiety or OCD

I quickly fell in love with Mel Robbins’ book The Let Them Theory. It is such a simple, and yet powerful approach to living your life. Throughout the book I thought about how the Let Them Theory could be adapted to parents, and in particular, those of us raising kids with anxiety or OCD.

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Does Your Child Mentally Review Past Events for Their OCD?

OCD feeds off of compulsions, including mental compulsions. Often OCD mental compulsions are missed, even by the person that is doing them! Mental reviewing is one of those compulsions people do without realizing they are growing their OCD.

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PSP 405: How to Improve Communication when Dealing with Your Child’s OCD or Anxiety

Effective communication is one of the most essential aspects of parenting a child with OCD or anxiety. When communication breaks down, our ability to support them directly becomes limited.

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PSP 404: How Your Childhood Impacts How You Handle Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD

We don’t just leave our childhood in the past. It comes with us, altering our lens of how we view life. This includes how we view and interact with our child’s anxiety or OCD.

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PSP 403: Parents at Odds: How Disagreements Impact Progress with Anxiety and OCD

When parents disagree on how to approach their child’s anxiety or OCD, they do more than irritate each other, it impacts their child’s progress with anxiety or OCD.

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PSP 402: Knowing When to Step Back: Supporting Your Child with OCD or Anxiety Without Overpushing

Trying to help a child with OCD or anxiety is not an easy task. One reason for that is because we are not steering the ship. This is not our battle. This is not our struggle. Although trust me, I know we have our own struggles on this journey raising a child with OCD or anxiety.

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PSP 400: The Difference Between Reframing Anxiety Thoughts vs OCD Thoughts

How we reframe anxious thoughts vs OCD thoughts are vastly different. Understanding the nuances of how we talk to these two disorders differently is crucial for any parent trying to help their child.

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PSP 399: Why the Core Fear Matters in Anxiety and OCD

Does it really matter if you understand the core fear related to your child’s anxiety or OCD. The short answer – yes.

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PSP 398: Handling Your Child’s Anxiety, OCD and Christmas Break

Just because it is the holiday season doesn’t mean our child’s anxiety and OCD take a break. The holidays can stir up a variety of issues for our kids depending on their particular anxiety and OCD themes.

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PSP 397: Feelings of Failure When Our Child’s Anxiety or OCD Doesn’t Get Better

As parents we can be hard on ourselves. The parenting journey raising kids with anxiety and OCD can come with many ups and downs. Many of us blame ourselves when our child’s anxiety or OCD doesn’t get better.

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Perfectionism Robs Our Kids of This.

Perfectionism can take up our child’s most important commodity – time. When they pour all their energy into perfecting something, other areas of their life suffer. That means that friendships, family relationships, a balanced diet, a good night’s sleep and time to recharge, all get sidelined in the name of perfection.

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PSP 395: How to Improve Sibling Relationships Despite Anxiety & OCD With Dr. Corinna Tucker

We all want our kids to have strong sibling relationships, but often anxiety and OCD can get in the way. Siblings might feel targeted by the child with anxiety or OCD. They might be on the receiving end of aggression or they might just feel sidelined by how much attention their sibling requires.

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How to Calm Nighttime Anxiety Before Bed

PSP 410: Helping Your Child with OCD or Anxiety When They Feel Hopeless

PSP 409: When You See Anxiety or OCD in Others Kids

PSP 408: How to Use Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory with Kids with Anxiety or OCD

Does Your Child Mentally Review Past Events for Their OCD?

PSP 405: How to Improve Communication when Dealing with Your Child’s OCD or Anxiety

PSP 404: How Your Childhood Impacts How You Handle Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD

PSP 403: Parents at Odds: How Disagreements Impact Progress with Anxiety and OCD

PSP 402: Knowing When to Step Back: Supporting Your Child with OCD or Anxiety Without Overpushing

PSP 400: The Difference Between Reframing Anxiety Thoughts vs OCD Thoughts

PSP 399: Why the Core Fear Matters in Anxiety and OCD

PSP 398: Handling Your Child’s Anxiety, OCD and Christmas Break

PSP 397: Feelings of Failure When Our Child’s Anxiety or OCD Doesn’t Get Better

Perfectionism Robs Our Kids of This.

PSP 395: How to Improve Sibling Relationships Despite Anxiety & OCD With Dr. Corinna Tucker

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