Afraid of What I Can’t Control

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You checked their location three times before lunch. You scrolled their social media from a fake account. You asked another mom to casually find out what's going on. And the whole time, you were telling your kid how important it is to be open and honest with you.

You see the problem.

Fear doesn't announce itself. It disguises itself as vigilance, as good parenting, as just being careful. But underneath, it's running the show — whispering worst-case scenarios at 2 a.m. and convincing you that if you don't control everything, everything will fall apart.

Erica gets honest about her own season of secret surveillance and catastrophic thinking — and why it backfired. She walks through the story of Cain and Abel and the detail most people miss: God didn't abandon the rebellious son. He marked him with protection. And He's doing the same thing for your child right now.

You'll learn a daily practice for naming your fear out loud instead of letting it fester, the ACTS prayer framework for when anxiety has you paralyzed, and a 15-minute conversation to have with your teen that builds trust without surrendering your authority.

Fear tells you to clamp down or you'll lose them. But the tighter you grip, the faster they pull away. There's a braver way forward — and it starts with trusting the God you keep telling your kids to trust.

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