354: Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP on How Anxious Parents Create Anxious Kids, Intentionality vs. Hyper-Vigilance, Navigating Trauma with Children, and How to Become a Worry-Free Parent

This week, licensed professional counselor and author Sissy Goff joins us to talk to parents about how anxious parents create anxious kids, intentionality in parenting versus a posture of hyper-vigilance, how to navigate trauma with children, and how to become a worry-free parent. What does that mean? As you know, anxiety has an amazing ability to spread. Time and time again, when Sissy Goff has an anxious child or teen in her office, she’s found they have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. And that anxiety is likely affecting your kids, distracting you in the present, and making you feel like it will define your family’s future.

Guest Bio:

Sissy Goff, M.Ed., LPC-MHSP, spends most of her days talking with girls and their families, with the help of her counseling assistant/pet therapist, Lucy the Havanese. She has worked as the Director of Child and Adolescent Counseling at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee since 1993, with a Master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Sissy speaks to parents and children’s ministers across the country, and is the author of twelve books, including the bestselling Raising Worry-Free Girls, Braver, Stronger Smarter (for elementary school girls) and her newest book for teenage girls, Brave.

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Dive Deeper:

If you enjoy this episode with Albert, I’m sure you’ll also enjoy the following:

• 299: John Eldredge on Getting Underneath Burnout, Powerlessness, and How to Build Resilience
• 301: Systemic Anxiety, Instability, Breaking Strongholds, and Becoming a Non-Anxious Presence (feat. Mark Sayers)

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