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. Although BFRBs are a common comorbid condition to anxiety and O

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. Are accommodations good or are they bad? One set of advice talks about leaning into accommodations, w

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.We explore how treating kids and teens with OCD requires a different, more flexible approach. St

OCD doesnt 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.That is why family involvement is key to a childs OCD long term success. Often this is the missing component

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.Get them to school. Get them to eat. Get them to be fully functioning.But there are a million smaller goals tha

OCD doesnt just involve our kids, it involves us. OCD reassurance seeking is a sneaky compulsion. It gets us to do OCDs dirty work. We often dont even know we are talking to OCD.It can feel bad to pull back our reassurance, even if we know it is OCD. I

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.This can impact how we show up for their anxiety or OCD. It can impact how much freedom we g

Sometimes we have to do something really scary in order to be our true selves. I started working on a memoir about social anxiety about five years ago. I finally finished the memoir but then six days later my husband passed away. The memoir collected

If we are openly discussing our childs anxiety or OCD with them, we might assume that we arent missing anything. But it is important to note that just because we see the tip of the iceberg, doesnt mean we see everything.I am constantly missing, and the

She was visibly shaking. Her hands were trembling and she was asking me to help. Her face was so pale that my own panic started to set in. This was the start of an anxiety attack.Anxiety and panic attacks can overwhelm both the person having them and