Healthy Coping for Stressful Times
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Stress is part of parenting, but how do you cope with it when you're completely overwhelmed? John and Danny share about how they've learned to rely on God's strength during stressful moments. Featuring Amber Lia and Wendy Speake.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I remember those times when our children were young and it was easy for Dina to get stressed out, my wife. |
| 0:13.6 | Of course, it was easy for me to get stressed out too. |
| 0:16.8 | I mean, you're shopping and suddenly a kid is gone. |
| 0:19.0 | Where they go? |
| 0:19.7 | I mean, that's a stressful situation. |
| 0:21.9 | A lot of us as parents are pretty overwhelmed but please know we're here to |
| 0:25.4 | offer some peace of mind today. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny |
| 0:29.3 | Werta he's our vice president of parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:34.3 | And we're going to kick off today with a conversation Jim Dalyhead with Amber Leah and Wendy |
| 0:38.9 | Speak, who offered ideas on coping with stress as a mom or a dad. |
| 0:44.4 | Moving from that kind of overwhelming blanket feeling of depression, |
| 0:51.6 | the modern day stresses. Let's talk about those, Amber. |
| 0:55.0 | What are they? How do we build a bit of a shield around those stresses? |
| 1:01.0 | It's probably epidemic for moms at this state where moms are feeling so |
| 1:06.8 | stressed out. It can be kids are involved in too much stuff. How do we pull them back? |
| 1:11.6 | So we're all healthier. |
| 1:13.0 | You know, kids are involved in too many things. We're involved in too many things. |
| 1:17.0 | We also just have the pressure of seeing all the things that we're not a part of, you know, on Instagram or social media. |
| 1:22.0 | It's like, I'm already too busy, but I also see all these |
| 1:25.4 | other things that other people are doing, and maybe I should be doing those. Or, you know, there's so many |
| 1:30.6 | opportunities for us to have the fear of missing out as well as feeling like |
| 1:36.1 | just this fear that we are doing too much. So how do we land you know in the |
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