Nothing warms my heart more than messages about how my courses have impacted families' lives. Like this one that was left on my course, How to Teach Kids to Crush OCD: Parents also found my Crushing OCD course for kids and teens helpful! You can watch this video below and hear what they thought: Today is the last day to get 50% off my online courses in honor of OCD Awareness Week. This offer expires at 11:59p PDT today, October 17th (with no exceptions so we can be fair to all parents). So be...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Helping our kids with anxiety and OCD can be counterintuitive; especially with OCD! Trusting your gut, or even an unskilled mental health professional, can sometimes make things worse. I learned that the hard way myself. After my kids had several bad therapists, I realized that my role was pivotal. Even now, with both kids seeing fantastic therapists, I am still the one dealing with their crises and immediate struggles 24/7. My guess is, so are you. That is why I don’t want you to miss the...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Whenever I do something new (like deciding to give away all my courses at 50% off this week 😳), I get emails with questions. Like, are you crazy?! No, but seriously perhaps you had questions too? I decided to make an email with answers to the most common questions I’m getting. If you still have questions after this just hit reply and I’ll be happy to answer them. 🤎 How long do we get access to the courses? You get ongoing access to the courses and can take them at your own time or even...
1 day ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader- As parents we have a front row seat to our child’s anxiety or OCD struggles. Their issues don’t stay neatly contained in a box. It explodes and impacts everyone around it. -We inadvertently grow it at times. -We coach (and sometimes beg) our kids to not listen to it. -We see it hiding in our child’s behaviors (even when they deny it). -We notice the impact it has on our other kids and on our adult relationships. We don’t get a choice whether these issues impact our child and our...
1 day ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader- Can you believe it takes an average of 14 to 17 years from the time OCD first appears for people to seek and receive appropriate OCD treatment? Yes, over a decade. And yet 50% of people with OCD report their symptoms started in childhood. Why should kids have to suffer for so long? But that doesn’t have to be your children’s fate. In fact, that’s the very issue that drives me to make sure parents have access to evidenced-based courses to help their child with OCD no matter what....
3 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader- Sometimes doing the right thing for your child’s OCD can feel completely wrong. When you start pulling back accommodations, your child may actually become more distressed, irritable, or angry. That can leave you wondering: Am I helping, or am I making this worse? In this week’s episode, I talk about why things can get harder when you stop participating in OCD, what that increased distress actually means, and how to support your child without accidentally getting pulled right back...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader- Maybe they can go to school, visit friends, or function fairly well outside the house, but the second they get home, OCD seems to take over. That can leave parents wondering why the rules, avoidance, contamination fears, or compulsions seem so much stronger in one environment than another. In this episode, I explain some of the reasons OCD can look different at home, including why home may become a “safer” place for compulsions, how contamination chains can build up over time, and...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader- If your child seems to have big reactions to sounds, textures, clothing, food, transitions, or everyday experiences, sensory processing may be playing a bigger role than you realize. In this episode, I’m joined by occupational therapist Laura Petix, from The OT Butterfly and author of The Sensory Code. We talk about how parents can better understand their child’s unique sensory needs, recognize what may be happening underneath challenging behavior and big emotions, and respond...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader- When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, so much of your energy can go toward helping them cope that it’s easy to forget that you need coping skills too. In this episode, I’m joined by Janine Halloran, author of Coping Skills for Everyone, to talk about coping skills for adults. We talk about what it looks like to take care of yourself when parenting feels stressful, overwhelming, or emotionally exhausting, and why the coping strategies that work for one person may not...
29 days ago • 1 min read