#135: Raising Worry-Free Girls with Sissy Goff

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Being famous at home requires that we become students of our kids. That we pay attention to what brings them alive and what shuts them down.

Our resident therapist, Sissy Goff, joins us this week to talk about how we can better know our girls, especially when they worry. If you haven't heard Sissy before, and you have a daughter, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

She begins by helping us understand some of the causes of the anxiety epidemic in girls today--from the biological to the generational, and even how we as parents tend to handle it.

Here are some highlights from this week's episode:

* Sissy describes the two most common parenting strategies as parents, why they make sense, but why they're not helpful.* A simplistic definition of anxiety for girls that helps us practically be able to help our girls realize they are bigger than the thing they are afraid of. * The one primary strategy for helping your daughter overcome fear.* How you can help your young daughter who is afraid of going to sleep or sleeping in her own beds overcome that fear.* Why grades are so anxiety-producing for girls today.* Practical exercises to help our girls of all ages overcome anxiety.

Show Notes:

To get your copy of Raising Worry Free Girls, click here.

To get your copy of Braver, Stronger, Smarter: A Girl's Guide to Overcoming Worry and Anxiety, click here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The bottom line definition I came up with in the book for anxiety is that anxiety is an overestimation of the problem and an underestimation of herself.
0:09.3	And so if you pull her out of the thing, that makes the problem bigger and her smaller rather than, I'm going to help you figure it out because you are bigger than your worry or you're bigger than this thing that you're stuck looping which is how
0:21.2	I talk about it with girls looping about you're listening to the famous at home podcast with
0:27.2	dr. Josh and christie strowell the podcast formerly known as in this together kind of like prince
0:33.5	but not we're now in this together helping you be famous at home so you can thrive on your stage.
0:42.9	Every one of us has a stage, and no matter the stage we show up on,
0:46.8	we all feel the stress of work, travel, and just plain busyness.
0:51.8	Unfortunately, it's our loved ones under our own roof who often get our
0:57.2	leftovers. But what if we didn't have to choose between work and our family? Research shows the
1:03.8	more connected we are to our spouse and kids, the more influence. And fun we have on our respective
1:10.6	stage.
1:11.4	So when your tires hit that driveway, keep in mind, the greatest red carpet you'll ever walk is through your front door.
1:19.2	You are famous at home.
1:23.7	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast and Happy Thanksgiving to you.
1:29.8	I wish there was a song, Happy Thanksgiving.
1:32.4	There really are no Thanksgiving songs.
1:34.0	If you know one, you need to let us know, but I don't really know of any to start seeing.
1:36.5	It's okay.
1:36.7	We just move into Christmas real fast.
1:38.5	That is very true.
1:39.5	Actually, we've already have done that for most of us.
1:41.9	So this week we are enjoying Thanksgiving, American
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