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Overcoming Parental Anxiety

Rewire Your Brain to Worry Less and Enjoy Parenting More

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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?

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    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2022

      Penned by therapists with a specialty in anxiety, this book addresses the often-contradictory information in literature about this medical disorder in children. According to the authors, parents must practice self-care and remember that it isn't solely about relaxation; it's also about finding ways to handle and cope with one's own challenges first and then help their children. The authors start with a scientific approach, exploring each area of the brain that can be somewhat rewired to reduce anxiousness and nervousness. Each chapter contains journaling prompts that helps achieve that rewriting. There are also breathing exercises and techniques for progressive muscle relaxation, sensory experience, and grounding. The end of the book includes a guide to help parents find their own go-to tools. VERDICT In an era when parents and children can reach crisis levels of anxiety, this is a valuable guide to navigating personal struggles, in order to be more present to guide children in theirs.

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      November 1, 2022
      Anxious parents raise anxious kids, according to the three anxiety psychologists who authored this very practical book. The team offers parents concrete ways to "rewire" their "parent brains," changing their worry and guilt to self-compassion and peace. The trick is to stop the brain from kicking into panic mode every time there's a real or perceived threat, a holdover from our primitive ancestors. The book is filled with quizzes to help readers assess where they stand on the worry chart, prompts to guide written explorations in their "training manual" or notebook, and examples from parents using the techniques. Links are also provided for downloading helpful worksheets. Readers are asked to be aware when their thoughts begin to spin, to evaluate the reality of the threat, and to come up with action steps. Good enough rather than perfection is the goal, and parents are urged to use meditative techniques and mindfulness to ease the need to control, celebrate the immediate, and model successful ways to control anxiety. This is a useful and reassuring approach to today's parenting.

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