Brave conversations with our kids Part 1: Talking about anxiety with Sissy Goff
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We’re focusing the next few weeks of Pardon the Mess on brave conversations we need to have with our kids.
This week we have licensed counselor Sissy Goff with us straight from Nashville. We’re chatting about anxiety in our kids and some of the hard emotions they are facing after this last year.
Sissy and I cover these topics around anxiety and mental health: Questions to ask your kids to gauge their anxiety level, strategies to implement when dealing with anxiety, eating disorders and other mental health issues increasing in teens, and common parenting mistakes in dealing with anxiety.
I especially loved Sissy’s explanation of anger being a secondary emotion that often stems from issues of fear and anxiety.
It’s a good reminder that what meets the eye is not always a true representation of what’s going on inside of our kids.
As we think through anxiety in our children this week, I want to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Sissy’s new book, Brave: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Beating Worry and Anxiety:
“All the girls I’ve ever met who are anxious have a few things in common: they’re bright and conscientious, they care and feel deeply, and they try hard. Those very gifts are sometimes the things that make us more anxious. Worry’s voice does not have the power to define you. That job belongs to you and the God who loves and delights in you.”
What a great reminder of why we must have brave conversations with our kids around this topic.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:03.0 | This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:15.5 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. |
| 0:21.6 | It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk the parenting road alone. |
| 0:31.6 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I am glad that you're with us today. We are going to take |
| 0:35.6 | the next couple of weeks and devote them |
| 0:37.6 | to hard conversations we need to have with our kids. And today we have with us licensed counselor |
| 0:43.0 | Sissy Gough. She's from Nashville. She's been on our show before and she loves the Lord. |
| 0:48.1 | She speaks into all emotional health issues related to our kids, adolescents, especially with girls. |
| 0:53.8 | But today we're talking about |
| 0:55.0 | anxiety. And she's going to tell us how before the pandemic, one in four of our kids would struggle |
| 1:00.6 | with anxiety. And since the pandemic, it's one and three. And girls are twice as likely than boys |
| 1:06.6 | to be dealing with this. And so I'm glad she's with us today as she gives us some strategies |
| 1:11.9 | that we can use at home, some conversations to have, conversation starters, also some things |
| 1:16.8 | that we do with our kids that are not helpful when it comes to anxiety. I personally had a |
| 1:21.6 | complete indictment on me when it comes to that. She talks about not trying to fix it for them, |
| 1:26.5 | which I'm guilty over here. |
| 1:28.5 | She also speaks into other mental health issues, like eating disorders. There's just a lot to this. |
| 1:33.8 | And so I'm thankful you're here. I'm thankful we're willing to have some of the hard conversations |
| 1:38.2 | with our kids because they deserve it and we've got to stay in the game with them as we're |
| 1:42.6 | parenting them. So here we go today |
| 1:44.4 | with Sissy Golf. Hey, Sissy, welcome to Pardon the Mess or welcome back to pardon the |
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