Resources to help prepare and navigate the changes that come with child rearing. Books, podcasts, and local library listings to make motherhood a more peaceful experience.
This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood, and offers practical answers and advice on how to tackle these.
Information about risk factors, diagnosis, treatment options, and prevention of mood and anxiety disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. It is written for women and families that are suffering, as well as the healthcare providers who treat them.
Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts is packed with world-class guidance, simple exercises, and nearly 50 stigma-busting cartoons from the viral #speakthesecret campaign that help new moms validate their feelings, share their fears, and start feeling better.
This book will guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship.
How a child's brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. This practical book offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.
Filled with vivid stories and unique practical tools, this book puts the keys to healthy attachment within everyone's reach--self-understanding, flexibility, and the willingness to make and learn from mistakes.
An exploration of the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. How interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to help raise compassionate and resilient children.
A powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience--of how we love, live, and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
This book will also include women's journeys through pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, postnatal depression, and resolution. The book offers personal journeys through pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood.
The story covers the challenges of parenthood, high functioning and invisible depression, the value of self-compassion in recovery, the stigma around asking for help, and the inner battle so many of us deal with daily.
This book is to include men in the discussion about early parenthood, to foster a gender-equitable, whole family approach to parental mental health, and to increase awareness about best practices in the care for expectant and new fathers.
Introduces the skills couples need to make the transition to parenthood, using practical advice and real-life examples to discuss how to avoid relationship meltdown, maintain a healthy sex life, and create a nurturing environment.
From the author and illustrator of Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, a guidebook for new parents packed with poignant comics and tips to help couples maintain a strong relationship with all the stress a beautiful baby brings
This wise, compassionate book teaches proven cognitive-behavioral strategies for coping with infertility and pregnancy loss. You will learn about common grief experiences that occur with such losses, as well as ways to find perspective and meaning, identify and change unhelpful thoughts, gain acceptance, reconnect with others, and reengage in life.
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy.