Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alarm Podcast.

I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I get to walk alongside

you and connect you to people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode, number 338, we get to welcome back.

Our favorite Nashville counselors, David Thomas and Sissy Gough to help us help our kids

find their people.

I would say on the flip side of losing friends or losing a friend who may have moved or

relocated, as painful as that's going to be to watch and where that may create some

hesitancy or even as you shared resistance, use that as opportunity.

I mean, I think one of the greater task of parenting is preparing our kids to navigate

loss, loss of all kinds, you know, that is inevitable this side of heaven.

And so though none of us would script that into the kids we love stories, we have to

be about the work of preparing them for loss.

Loss of friendships, loss of relationships, loss of jobs, loss of people we love in this

world because that loss is universal.

It's a universal human experience that none of us can get around.

And so I would take advantage of that and just even helping kids develop more of a connection

emotionally to what's going on that may be affecting what's going on socially.

David and Sissy have each been on the show twice individually and once together.

And so we need to have them come back.

And this topic, y'all, after I recorded it, I couldn't stop talking about it with my

real life friends.

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