The truth is we are all surviving parenting one day at a time. Add child anxiety or childhood OCD an
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Stuart Ralph, from the podcast The OCD Stories to talk about
OCD doesn’t live in a bubble; it lives in our home. It lives in our families. It is not an isolated
Anxiety and OCD can create hopelessness. It can feel like such an overwhelming task to overcome thes
OCD doesn’t just involve our kids, it involves us. OCD reassurance seeking is a sneaky compulsion. I
It can be so hard to see our kids tumble and fall. No one wants to see their kids fail. But we rob o
Sometimes we have to do something really scary in order to be our true selves. I started working on
If we are openly discussing our child’s anxiety or OCD with them, we might assume that we aren’t mis
She was visibly shaking. Her hands were trembling and she was asking me to help. Her face was so pal
Anxiety and OCD are hard enough to deal with, but when you sprinkle ADHD into the mix everything can
It is already tough trying to help our kids with anxiety or OCD, but it is even harder stomaching un
It has been so nice to see all these films addressing our children’s mental health issues. The more
Raising a child with anxiety or OCD can bring with it so many struggles, including our own grief and
John Green’s new movie Turtles All the Way Down goes a long way in helping the OCD community educate
It can take so much energy to find a qualified OCD specialist to finally assess and diagnose your ch
Anxiety and OCD can rob our kids of so many things, including their self-esteem and self-worth. It i
What will your anxious kids look like when all grown up? Amanda Stern and I are two possibilities. A
There are many assumptions about ERP, Exposure Response Prevention, the go-to approach to treat OCD
When you bring your child to a cardiologist, you expect they know all the evidence based treatment i
There is nothing worse than seeing the first signs of anxiety or OCD return. It is a stomach droppin
It can be a struggle to know how to help a child with separation anxiety. Separation anxiety impacts