Easing Anxiety – Like 1, 2, 3
When our anxiety seems to be spiraling out of control, what can we do? Sissy Goff presents three steps to help ground us in the truth.
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Sissy Goff
Sissy Goff, M.ED., LPC-MHSP spends most of her days talking with girls and their families, with the help of her counseling assistant/pet therapist, Lucy the Havanese. She has worked as the Director of Child and Adolescent Counseling at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee since 1993, with a Master's degree from Vanderbilt University. A sought-after speaker for parenting and teacher training events such as dotMOM, Lifeway Kids Conference, and Heart of the Child, Sissy has spoken...more
When our anxiety seems to be spiraling out of control, what can we do? Sissy Goff presents three steps to help ground us in the truth.
Bob: How we interact with and communicate with our teenagers, especially around subjects like anxiety and fear—how we hear from them about what’s going on in their own heart—this is not easy; they don’t make it easy for us as parents. It takes skill on our part to know how to engage with our teens; so that we can help them, and we can point them in the right direction: we can point them to faith instead of fear; we can point them to what the Bible has to say and help them in the midst of the anxiety they’re dealing with.
This is at the heart of what Sissy Goff has written in her book, Brave. The subtitle is A Teen Girl’s Guide to Beating Worry and Anxiety. I think, honestly, it may help some moms and dads of teenagers to understand how we can deal with our own worry and anxiety as well. We have Sissy’s book available. You can order it from us online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call to order at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the title of the book is Brave. It’s available online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order at 1-800-358-6329; that’s 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word, “TODAY.”
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And we hope you can join us back tomorrow as we continue to explore how we, as parents, can help our teenage daughters, who may be experiencing unusually high levels of anxiety, fear, or worry. Sissy Goff will be back with us, again, tomorrow. I hope you can be here as well.
On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I’m Bob Lepine. We’ll see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today.
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