Finally Start Getting Control of Your Anxiety

Holley Gerth is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, trained counselor, life coach, and cofounder of The Potentialist Agency. She knows what it's like to personally struggle with depression and anxiety, which has given her a passion for helping others find freedom too. Her latest book, What Your Mind Needs for Anxious Moments, combines heartfelt encouragement, biblical truth, brain science, and practical steps. Her previous release, The Powerful Purpose of Introverts, was chosen as a finalist for the Next Big Idea Club (founded by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, and Daniel Pink). Holley is also cohost of the popular More Than Small Talk podcast, which has almost one million downloads. As the summit host, Holley's prayer is that you feel encouraged, equipped with new tools, and that this experience is a turning point in your journey toward breaking free from stress, worry, and anxiety.

In this session, Holley shares her story with anxiety and the difference between biological and biblical anxiety. Holley discusses three ways to make our anxiety an ally, not our enemy. Anxiety does not have to control us nor consume our everyday life. We can look at our anxiety in a new way with strength and walk with Jesus in that journey.

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Lies that Lead to Anxiety and Truths to Set You Free

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a bestselling and award-winning author of several books including Set Free to Live Free, Sacred Rest, Come Empty, and Colorful Connections. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician, work-life integration researcher, speaker, and host of the I Choose My Best Life Podcast. She transparently shares how her past pain has been redeemed through the practical application of God's word. Over 250,000 people have discovered their personal rest deficits using her assessment at RestQuiz.com. Learn more about Dr. Saundra at IChooseMyBestLife.com

In this session, Dr. Saundra discusses the importance of replacing the lies we believe with the truth of God's Word. She explains the lies we tell ourselves within rest, perfection, balance and limits. These lies can be broken and we can embrace freedom of walking in truth.

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We Aren't Meant to Overcome

Jillian Benfield is a former TV journalist turned wife, mom of three and now author. Jillian and her husband got the surprise of her lives in 2014 when they found out their unborn son would be born with an intellectual disability. Her upcoming debut book (releasing with Bethany house in January 2023) is about how the unexpected things that happen to us can help us become who we are meant to be.

In this session, Jillian shares her heart and testimony through the hardships in her own life. She shares a new perspective on overcoming and undergoing. The world strives to overcome and Jillian shares that we can change that narrative by our perspective. When we undergo, we can experience a transforming hope only found in Christ. Your circumstances that are adding to your stress may not change right now, but this time offers us an opportunity to commune with the God that wept with us and for us, to become more empathetic than we once were, to become stronger and also softer, too. But only if we resist overcoming our circumstances and undergo them instead.

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Feeling It All Without Falling Apart

Evan and Jenny met in music school at Belmont University where talented beatboxer, Evan quickly, and correctly, pegged Jenny as a teacher's pet. Nine years later, newly married and working in their first careers - Evan in technology and Jenny as a civilian Occupational Therapist for the Army - they saw a gap in spiritual care for combat veterans. Together, they founded REBOOT Recovery, a global nonprofit that helps people of all backgrounds overcome trauma and embrace a brighter future. REBOOT courses are led by everyday people and offered in hundreds of locations around the world. Evan and Jenny have managed to work together for over ten years without killing each other thanks to frequent date nights, The Office reruns and dreaming about their favorite place on earth, Jekyll Island, GA. They have three blonde boys (sorry, Evan) and live outside Nashville, TN.

In this session, Evan shares about Feeling It All Without Falling Apart - managing strong emotions when we are overwhelmed. If we do not acknowledge our emotions, we cannot deal with them and if we do not deal with them, we cannot heal from them. All emotions are a gift from God for us to process what we have experienced. Feeling our emotions won't kill us, but ignoring them will and just because emotions are uncontrollable, doesn't mean that they are unmanageable. There is hope when it comes to feeling and healing.

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Finding Peace When You're Overwhelmed

Ann Swindell is the author of The Path to Peace: Experiencing God’s Comfort When You are Overwhelmed (Bethany House). She is the owner of Writing with Grace and lives in West Michigan with her pastor husband and their two kids. You can connect with her online at AnnSwindell.com.

In this session, Ann talks about finding peace when we are overwhelmed. We can walk in more freedom and less anxiety as we experience Christ's comfort in our stress. We can't know the peace of God until we know and understand peace with God. When we experience true peace, our soul is at rest. It is not easy to experience peace each day and so we need to be intentional to practice it each day. It is a daily act that we can experience and apply to our lives. Peace is a person and peace comes from the person of Jesus.

Connect with Ann on Instagram, Facebook and her Website.

How to Talk to People About Your Anxiety

Becky Keife is the Community and Editorial Manager for (in)courage. She’s also the author of several books including, No Better Mom for the Job, The Simple Difference, and Courageous Kindness. Becky’s newest release is the Create in Me a Heart of Peace Bible Study. In addition to writing and speaking about motherhood and countercultural kindness, Becky is a passionate mental health advocate. She tells her own unfiltered anxiety stories so others will feel less alone and be better equipped to see God in the thick of it. Follow her on Instagram @beckykeife for A Verse a Day for the Anxious Soul or go to beckykeife.com.

In this session, Becky discusses the courage it takes to talk about our anxiety. It is costly to open up about our anxiety and the enemy does not want us to share. Healing and freedom do not happen in the darkness of shame. We will find greater support when we walk in the light of freedom and healing. Our experiences and feelings are valid even if someone else does not affirm or validate them. We can go to God, who knows, understands, and loves us through any anxiety.

Connect with Becky on Instagram, Facebook and her Website!

What to Say to Someone Who Struggles with Anxiety

Crystal Paine (www.moneysavingmom.com) is a New York Times bestselling author, a popular speaker, the host of The Crystal Paine Show, and the founder of one of the top personal finance blogs on the web, Money Saving Mom. Her desire is to help women across the globe live with more joy in their everyday lives. Her biggest passions are helping women understand how the Gospel can radically transform their lives, raising awareness for foster care, and finding great deals at the grocery store. She lives with her husband and six kids in the Nashville, Tennessee, area.

In this session, Crystal shares what to say to someone who struggles with anxiety. This can be a challenge for all of us. It is a process as we walk alongside someone who is struggling with anxiety. Crystal simplifies in practical steps that we can apply in those vulnerable moments with someone who is dealing with anxiety. These key steps can encourage others as we are willing to put them into practice. It is a humbling place to be in and we can trust God that He will use us to be His witness and love on others in the midst of their anxiety. 

Connect with Crystal on Instagram and her Website!

How to Exchange Worry, Fear, and Anxiety for God’s Peace

Dr. Michelle Bengtson has been a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist for almost 30 years. She is a multi-award winning author of Hope Prevails: Insights From a Doctor’s Personal Journey Through Depression, the Hope Prevails Bible Study, Breaking Anxiety’s Grip: How to Reclaim the Peace God Promises, and Today Is Going to be a Good Day: 90 Promises From God to Start Your Day Off Right (Releasing May, 2022). She is an international speaker, podcast host, and coach whose mission it is to restore hope, renew minds, and empower others to live in their God-given identity. This doctor knows pain and despair firsthand and combines her professional expertise and personal experience with her faith to help others be all God created them to be. Using sound practical tools, she affirms worth and encourages faith. Dr. Bengtson offers hope as a key to unlock joy and relief—even in the middle of the storm. Throughout her career as a clinical neuropsychologist, and now as a speaker, author, podcast host, and coach, she encourages others to focus less on their self-esteem and more on how God esteems them by knowing His truths offered in Scripture. She loves offering practical resources to help you grow in your walk with the Lord.

In this session, Dr. Michelle Bengtson discusses how to exchange worry, fear, and anxiety for God's peace. God desires for us to trust Him in all things, the big and the small. We can take God at His word, and rest in His presence and promises. Whatever happens in this life, God is in ultimate control, the outcomes do not depend on us. In difficult seasons, we can turn to the testimony of personal experiences, through people and God's word to comfort us. 

Connect with Dr. Michelle on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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