Overcoming Parental Anxiety
On sale
5th January 2023
Price: £15.99
Genre
Health & Personal Development / Family & Health / Coping With Personal Problems / Coping With Anxiety & Phobias
Selected:
Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781648480300
Be the calm and collected parent you aspire to be with this powerful, neuroscience-based guide.Do you worry about your child all the time? Maybe they are behind on certain milestones, struggling in school, having difficulty making friends, or heading off to college and away from home for the first time. Their problems or struggles become your own, and you end up feeling so anxious that you forget what it’s like to just enjoy being their parent. The good news is that you can rewire your “parent brain” to respond differently to these challenges. This book will show you how to replace parental anxiety with parental effectiveness.In Overcoming Parental Anxiety, three anxiety specialists team up to help you change your anxious brain using the core principles of neuroscience and exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. You’ll learn how to overcome worry by identifying your parental values, paying attention to the moment, and cultivating self-compassion. Most importantly, you’ll find targeted exercises to help minimize parenting related worry and anxiety, so you can live more fully and enjoy the shared experiences you have with your children.Thanks to the brain’s lifelong ability to create new neural connections, you can achieve that coveted and elusive sense of calm that seems to come so easily to some parents. And by practicing the simple neuroscience-based skills in this book, you can overcome your parental anxiety, stress less, and be more present with your kids. Why not get started now?
Reviews
"Overcoming Parental Anxiety is a book that should be given to every parent! It provides essential information to help you understand why parenting is so often anxiety-provoking. More importantly, it provides really helpful ways to get unhooked from anxiety and accept the realities of being an imperfect parent. This book will help you get back to enjoying being a parent." —Kimberly Morrow, LCSW, co-owner of Anxiety Training, and coauthor of CBT for Anxiety
"Timely and practical, Overcoming Parental Anxiety is truly essential for all parents. This book will show you how to tame the anxiety that is so often present in parenting, and instead find joy, compassion, and connection with your child. Well written and full of useful tools, the authors use a brain-based approach to teach you to rewire your brain to be a calmer, more present, and more effective parent. Highly recommended!" —Kevin L. Gyoerkoe, PsyD, director of The Anxiety and OCD Treatment Center in Charlotte, NC; and coauthor of 10 Simple Solutions to Worry and The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook
"Parenting in the modern age can be perilous, but it need not be ridden with anxiety. This formative text, which provides practical guidance based on current evidence, is a must-read for anxious parents!" —David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP, founder of the Center for Anxiety, and associate professor at Harvard Medical School