Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why Your Child’s Anxiety Might Be Coming From You | Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP & David Thomas, LMSW · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

I talk a lot with parents about default settings.

You know, I think we all have default settings.

i have a computer that every time i turn on it's too dim and so i've got to change that default setting so that i can see the screen a little bit better i'm defining my age in that example but i think we as parents can have default settings that can get in the way of our kids and i think

Sometimes our fear is so great that it stands in the way of kids building the courage.

I have an author whose work I love that says, you know, courage is just fear that said its prayers.

Like that's a great thing to be saying to kids with regularity.

So often that I think kids are assuming I'll arrive there when I get it perfect, when I do it right every time, when I don't experience any fear in the process.

And that's just not going to happen.

We all still do.

I think it is that back to support and challenge.

I'm a huge advocate of boys, my work with adolescent boys, that by the time you graduate...

I want you to have gone to at least two homecoming dances and at least one prom, at least.

I'd prefer you go to all because the practice, I talk about driving and dating as having a lot of similarities that none of us know how to intuitively parallel park a car.

We've got to practice a lot at that.

No adolescent boy intuitively knows how to sit across the table at dinner and have conversation with someone of the opposite sex.

You've got to practice that, too.

And those are ideal contexts for doing that.

I was even thinking when Sissy was talking about the landline example of how much training ground happened just in having to answer the phone as a teenage boy and my mom's friends being on the other line who would be like, how's school?

How'd you do at the swim meet on Saturday?

And so I had to have all this awkward conversation.

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