I often get emails from parents asking me about how they can help their child when they are having a panic/anxiety attack. In this video, we will look at some definitions, some signs your child might be having a panic/anxiety attack, and some things to do to help during that time.
Love to hear your thoughts on this. What has worked for you? What did not work?
As parents life is busy trying to balance family and work. The truth is life is busy for everyone. We need to look at slowing life down in our homes not only for our kid’s sake but for our own sanity as well. This vlog is 10 ways I think that we can slow down in our life. There are many other ways to do this. These are just 10. Add any more ways you can slow down in the comments below.
In our busy lives, we sometimes forget to be thankful for the things that we have. I would encourage all of you to add a Gratitude jar into your family life. It is a simple way to intentionally be thankful for what we have in life.
As we head into the midpoint of Summer 2018, I want to say a huge thank you to a few groups of people:
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Really great article here from Ed Stetzer. We are getting better at this in the church world but we still have a long way to go.
A Gap in Awareness. There was a significant gap in what pastors said their churches provided and what family members said was available. In six of the nine typical types of care referenced in the survey, fewer family members than pastors believed their churches offered such help.
This was particularly true for churches maintaining a list of experts to which people could be referred. Almost seven in 10 (68%) pastors said their churches had such a list. Less than three in 10 (28%) family members had the same perception.
The Views of Those with Mental Illness. Much like their family members, those personally suffering from mental illness and who also regularly attend church believe more could be done to help them.
Here are the ways a majority said the Church could assist them:
- 74%: help families find local resources for support and dealing with the illness
- 63%: talk about it openly so the topic is not so taboo
- 61%: improve people’s understanding of what mental illness is and what to expect
- 58%: provide training for the Church to understand mental illness
- 57%: increase awareness of how prevalent mental illness is today
For many suffering from a mental illness, they simply want to be treated as people and not outcasts. Overall, 70% of Protestants with a mental illness wanted fellow church members to merely get to know them as a friend. For consistent church attenders, that number climbed to 78%. They just want to be treated like a person, which sometimes even those in ministry can forget to do.
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I am excited to announce that my talk called dating.for.life: the questions has been filmed and is available for digital download or rent. If you follow this link it will take you to VimeoOnDemand where you can get a copy. Love to hear your thoughts. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/datingforlife
In this new update of my original dating for life talk (now on youtube) I have gone back to the basics. In this new talk I answer 8 basic foundational questions on dating:
1. What is dating?
2. When should I start dating?
3. Am I ready to start dating?
4. How do I start dating?
5. What are Red Flags in my dating relationships?
6. How do I find out if they are the “One”?
7. How do I break up?
8. What if they are the right person for me?
Simple and practical conversations on dating for High School and Young Adults. This talk might also be good for parents who want to understand how to help equip their kids for conversations on dating.
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