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How to Boost Your Child’s Confidence While Navigating Anxiety or Child OCD with Sharon West

Confidence can take a major hit when a child is struggling with OCD or anxiety. In this episode, I sit down with teen coach Sharon West to explore how we can nurture self-confidence in our kids—even as they battle intrusive thoughts, worry, and fear.

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PSP 412: Improving Our Child’s Life with OCD with Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz

How do we help our children with OCD have a better quality of life? Our child’s OCD is more than just Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy. It is more than just their intrusive thoughts and their compulsions.

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PSP 411: When Your Child’s OCD Says a Loved One is Contaminated

There is nothing more disruptive and upsetting than OCD latching on to a loved one. Contamination isn’t just about germs – it can be about people, people our kids love. Families get thrown into chaos when OCD decides a parent or sibling is the source of contamination.

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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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Why OCD Makes Your Child Doubt Everything (Teach Them How to Fight Back!)

Has your child ever known something was true but still felt unsure? Like, “Did I cheat on that test?” or “What if I accidentally said something bad?” That’s OCD creating doubt—over and over again!

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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 406: How to Handle Tourettic OCD with Dr. John Piacentini

Not every OCD theme is about a fear, sometimes it is about a feeling. That is the case with Tourettic OCD. Tourettic OCD is not triggered by an intrusive thought, but rather a somatic urge. Compulsions can include sudden, repetitive movements or vocalizations.
Not every OCD theme is about a fear, sometimes it is about a feeling. That is the case with Tourettic OCD. Tourettic OCD is not triggered by an intrusive thought, but rather a somatic urge. Compulsions can include sudden, repetitive movements or vocalizations.

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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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The Vicious Cycle of Nausea, Anxiety and OCD

Nausea is front and center for SO many themes related to anxiety and OCD. Feeling nauseous when you are anxious is incredibly common. So it is not surprising that anxiety, and even OCD, hijack that sensation and make it a theme in and of itself.

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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 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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PSP 396: A New OCD Tool to Help Kids Practice Their Skills at Home

Often it is hard to get our kids into OCD therapy, and when we do, it can be an uphill battle to get them to practice those skills in between sessions. That is why I’m so excited to offer another tool to your at-home toolbox!

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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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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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How to Boost Your Child’s Confidence While Navigating Anxiety or Child OCD with Sharon West

PSP 412: Improving Our Child’s Life with OCD with Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz

PSP 411: When Your Child’s OCD Says a Loved One is Contaminated

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

Why OCD Makes Your Child Doubt Everything (Teach Them How to Fight Back!)

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

PSP 406: How to Handle Tourettic OCD with Dr. John Piacentini

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

The Vicious Cycle of Nausea, Anxiety and OCD

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

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

PSP 396: A New OCD Tool to Help Kids Practice Their Skills at Home

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

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

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