Anxious about Decisions

Counselor Michael Gembola explores decision-making anxiety and points to the peace that comes from knowing God as your refuge and ever-present help in trouble.

Do you get anxious when you have to make a decision? Do you overthink, overtalk, and overanalyze? When anxiety surrounds every decision, the result can be decision-making paralysis. Learning to trust God, even when the path is not clear, will give you courage to move forward one step at a time.

Anxious with Decisions will help you see that God offers you something better than certainty and the absence of risk when you’re faced with decisions both big and small. He promises to be with you. And when you allow the Good Shepherd to lead, you will find that he uses times of decision-making to make you more peaceful and become a better steward of the opportunities in front of you.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction
4. Part 1: Understnading Decision Anxiety Chapter 1: How Decision Anxiety Works
5. Chapter 2: Why Trying to Fix Anxiety Doesn't Work: Four Ways We Make It Worse
6. Chapter 3: Feeling Mixed Up about God's Will
7. Part 2: Where Decision Anxiety Comes From Chapter 4: Navigating a Culture of Fear in Young Adulthood and Beyond
8. Chapter 5: How Our Families Teach Us What to Fear and Why It's So Persuasive
9. Part 3: How to Change Chapter 6: Anxiety about Marriage: How Knowing God and Kowing Yourself Brings Clarity
10. Chapter 7: Anxiety about Vocation: Working toward Faithful Stewardship and Peace
11. Chapter 8: Anxiety about Plans, Purchases, and Other Small Stuff: Growing in Skill and Virtue
12. Conclusion
13. Closing Credits