Getting Brave About Anxiety :: Sissy Goff [Ep 311]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sissy Goff is one of our favorite counselors to have on the show and she’s back with us to talk about her new guide for helping teen girls with worry and anxiety. But beyond that she offers hope and help for all of us as we experience hard emotions in the midst of this pandemic.

We talk about strategies for working through worry and anxiety for different ages and stages of kids and for us as moms. And Sissy reminds us to trust our instincts when it comes to helping our kids.

“You are not alone. And as a mom, your gut is your superpower. You are so intuitive and trust your gut on what's going on with your kids and, and have a few people that you trust a lot that you can talk to. Definitely talk about it because anxiety left untreated only gets worse. I'm seeing so much more in the pandemic that it's spilling over into depression.”

She also reminds us that asking for help is a brave and often necessary step for helping our kids learn practical ways to fight back when worries come up.

Connect with Sissy:

Website: raisingboysandgirls.com
Podcast: raisingboysandgirls.com/listen
Facebook: facebook.com/raisingboysandgirls
Instagram: @raisingboysandgirls

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:11.0	I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside
0:16.0	you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:22.5	And this episode number 311 which I kind of want to say 311 like 911 is a gal that has
0:31.0	come on the show several times before and just brought hope and help.
0:36.9	It is fantastic counselor and author and speaker sissy golf.
0:44.3	You are not alone and as a mom your gut is your superpower.
0:49.9	You are so intuitive and trust your gut on what's going on with your kids and have
0:55.0	a few people that you trust a lot that you can talk to.
0:57.9	I mean that's definitely a piece of it is to have a small trusted few but definitely
1:02.9	talk about it because anxiety left and treated only gets worse.
1:06.9	And so if we don't do anything about it it's going to get worse and what we're seeing
1:12.3	what we've always seen but I think I'm seeing so much more in the pandemic is that it's
1:17.4	building over in the depression.
1:20.2	Sissy golf is a licensed professional counselor and director of children and adolescents over
1:25.7	at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville Tennessee.
1:30.0	But thanks to the internet we can use her wisdom and learn from her today.
1:34.9	She's going to start off by helping us with kids who are experiencing a lot of complex
1:39.6	emotions because of the pandemic whether your kids have been in person school are still
1:44.4	doing distance learning or homeschooled this has impacted them and I think particularly
1:49.5	the ages of early adolescents they don't maybe have words for it.
1:54.6	So she's going to help guide us in that.
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