Podcast Episodes - AT: Parenting Survival for All Ages

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

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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PSP 394: Can You Find Happiness While Your Child is Struggling with Anxiety or OCD?

PSP 394: Can You Find Happiness While Your Child is Struggling with Anxiety or OCD?

Are you able to experience happiness while your child is struggling with anxiety or OCD? Do you feel guilty or tell yourself stories about your ability to be “happy” while your child is suffering?

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PSP 393: Helping Autistic Kids Who have OCD with Jan Stewart

PSP 393: Helping Autistic Kids Who have OCD with Jan Stewart

It can be hard enough to help a child with OCD, but what if they are autistic as well? It can be confusing to figure out where autistic traits end and OCD compulsions begin. It can also be a struggle to navigate two worlds that don’t always intersect.

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PSP 392: What Stories are You Telling Yourself About Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD?

PSP 392: What Stories are You Telling Yourself About Your Child’s Anxiety or OCD?

We may not have full control over our child’s recovery around anxiety or OCD, but we can control how we show up to their struggles. This can be tricky when our mind is bogged down with what-if scenarios.

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PSP 391: What to Do When Your Child Won’t Get Needed Mental Health Treatment with Alec Pollard

PSP 391: What to Do When Your Child Won’t Get Needed Mental Health Treatment with Alec Pollard

The number one struggle I hear from parents is, “My child won’t accept help for their anxiety or OCD.” What are we supposed to do when anxiety or OCD has hijacked the house and everyone who inhabits it?

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PSP 390: Helping Kids Who Give Up Easily

PSP 390: Helping Kids Who Give Up Easily

Anxiety and OCD can take a TON of resilience. So when we have kids who generally give up easily, this can impact how they handle their mental health struggles.

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PSP 388: Helping Our College Kids with Anxiety or OCD

PSP 388: Helping Our College Kids with Anxiety or OCD

It is hard enough supporting our kids with anxiety or OCD, but what happens when they go away to college? We still need to support our kids, but our relationship and physical proximity has changed.

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PSP 387: How to Address Picking and Pulling Behaviors with Aneela Idnani

PSP 387: How to Address Picking and Pulling Behaviors with Aneela Idnani

It is not uncommon for kids with anxiety or OCD to also have issues with picking their skin or pulling their hair. These behaviors are classified as BFRBs, body-focused, repetitive behaviors.

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PSP 386: The Difference Between PDA Accommodations and OCD Accommodations

PSP 386: The Difference Between PDA Accommodations and OCD Accommodations

Often parents who are raising kids with both PDA and OCD get conflicting advice. This can push a parent who is already stressed, over the edge.

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PSP 385: Helping Kids with OCD with Stuart Ralph from OCD Stories

PSP 385: Helping Kids with OCD with Stuart Ralph from OCD Stories

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Stuart Ralph, from the podcast The OCD Stories to talk about his journey from OCD sufferer, OCD podcaster to therapist.

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PSP 384: Why Family Involvement is Key to OCD Treatment in Kids

PSP 384: Why Family Involvement is Key to OCD Treatment in Kids

OCD doesn’t live in a bubble; it lives in our home. It lives in our families. It is not an isolated disorder. It involves the whole family system.

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PSP 383: The Power of Celebrating Small Wins with Anxiety or OCD

PSP 383: The Power of Celebrating Small Wins with Anxiety or OCD

Anxiety and OCD can create hopelessness. It can feel like such an overwhelming task to overcome these struggles. Often we focus on the end goal.

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PSP 382: A Helpful Tool for OCD Reassurance Seeking

PSP 382: A Helpful Tool for OCD Reassurance Seeking

OCD doesn’t just involve our kids, it involves us. OCD reassurance seeking is a sneaky compulsion. It gets us to do OCD’s dirty work. We often don’t even know we are talking to OCD.

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PSP 381: Letting Our Kids Fail So They Can Succeed

PSP 381: Letting Our Kids Fail So They Can Succeed

It can be so hard to see our kids tumble and fall. No one wants to see their kids fail. But we rob our kids the ability to learn when we protect them from failure.

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