Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, create. These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal, trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe and we are so glad you're joining us today. We have a

really important conversation that I think is going to help so many parents, especially if you're

parenting teenagers and especially if you have any girls in your family. Yes, for sure,

Sissy Goffs with us and we respect her so much. She's been a licensed counselor for 25

years, adolescents, primarily girls, but boys too. And she was on season two, episode 20,

on helping children overcome anxiety. So if you haven't listened to that, make sure you listen

to that and this is almost a bookend a year later of what COVID did to our kids and our teenagers.

And the fact that so many of our teen girls experience anxiety more than boys and we talk to her about

what uniquely happened this last year that's creating more of that and then what can we do not

just as moms but fathers. What does it mean to step in? And we know, Rebecca and I know from

just our personal friendships to so many of you in the community we've heard how much this past

year has been such a struggle from both parenting but also marriage. I mean, it's been a challenging

year where we all feel squeezed and the stress comes in and all of a sudden some things that were

buried start to come out and we have to start dealing with some things and we're not always

equipped to do that. Yeah. And so we prayed about retreats for this year and resources and other

ways we can give those of you who are listening to the podcast and you want to dig a little deeper.

Maybe you just need some more just intensive. So we're going to do that with the rhythms for

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