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Welcome to the gospel coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today you'll hear a panel from Suzanne Bates, Betsy Childs Howard, Courtney Ryzig and Kristen Wetherl on finding peace in the midst of an anxious world.

This talk was originally delivered at TGC's 2021 Women's Conference.

We are grateful that this breakout session is sponsored by Covenant College.

Their generous support makes the session possible, and you can learn more about Covenant College by visiting them online at Covenant.edu.

And I am very happy to be here with these wonderful ladies, and we are going to each introduce ourselves before we start talking about fear and anxiety.

So we'll each tell you a little bit about ourselves very brief, and also what our history with this subject has been like.

So I'll start. My name is Betsy Childs Howard.

I live in New York City. My husband is a church planter there, and I have one baby son.

And I've dealt with normal types of anxiety in my whole life.

I grew up in a Christian home.

There have been plenty of times that I've been anxious and had to rely on the promises of God.

There have also been a few times in my life where I've had what I would call clinical anxiety, where my body was really affected, couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, and medication has been really helpful to me in that struggle.

So I've dealt with both sides of it, and we'll talk more about that, but that's a little bit about me and my history.

So Suzanne, tell us about you.

Hello everybody, I'm Suzanne, and I would have to say that for me, anxiety in my life has been something that I haven't dealt with as directly on a regular day to day, but I have dealt with when I've traveled in terms of having a panic attack on a flight.

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