Work, parent, thrive : 12 science-backed strategies to ditch guilt, manage overwhelm, and grow connection (when everything feels like too much)

Work, parent, thrive 12 science-backed strategies to ditch guilt, manage overwhelm, and grow connection (when everything feels like too much)

Yael Schonbrun

Book - 2022

"Twelve practical strategies to experience more joy and feel less guilt as a working parent, drawn from ACT, the groundbreaking therapy technique that has helped countless people. Dr. Yael Schonbrun calls out the myth of the work-life balance and offers practical strategies that can help us reframe our approach to working and parenting from the inside out. Based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), these strategies won't create more hours in the day, but they can shift how we label our experiences, revise the stories we tell ourselves about working and parenting, and recognize the value we get from each role. Differing values and commitments pull working parents in opposite directions and the social supports families desper...ately need are lacking. Yet even with these very real challenges, we can find more peace and less stress. Some of these strategies include: Getting clear on our values and using these to help us make what often feel like no-win choices around time and resources; Practicing mindfulness in both parenting and working; Subtracting less meaningful obligations from our lives. These steps can help you crush both roles, with examples from the author's research that show families of many shapes and backgrounds"--

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Subjects
Parenting.
Work and family.
Work-life balance.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Yael Schonbrun (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xxiv, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781611809657
  • Introduction
  • The Problem of Working Parenthood
  • Part 1. From the Head
  • Transforming Your Working-Parent Mind
  • 1. When You're Lost, Let Values Be Your Guide
  • 2. Change Your Working-Parent Mindset
  • 3. Unhook from Unhelpful Labels
  • 4. Spin Your Story
  • Part 2. From the Feet
  • How to Working-Parent More Strategically
  • 5. Do the Right Hard Things (the Right Way)
  • 6. Rethink Your Rest
  • 7. Turn Constraints into Creativity
  • 8. Remember to Subtract
  • 9. Grow Connection through the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Infuriating
  • Part 3. From the Heart
  • How to Working-Parent Happier
  • 10. Finesse Your Stress
  • 11. Tend to Your Happiness Needs
  • 12. Balance Your Pleasure and Meaning
  • Epilogue: Love Deeply, Contribute Meaningfully
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Psychologist Schonbrun debuts with a helpful look at how to achieve satisfaction as a working parent. Citing data from 2020 that 60% of married couples with children were both employed, Schonbrun writes that having two demanding roles--at work and as a parent--can leave caretakers overwhelmed. But parents have a "vast and often untapped power" within their grasp, and to help them access it, the author offers advice for establishing a "work-family enrichment mindset" (by, for example, asking oneself "How does each role strengthen skills in the other?"), taking notice of words that frame working parenthood negatively (describing it with terms such as "conflict," "unfair," or "impossible"), and finding meaning in mundane tasks ("Locating some pleasure in vacuuming has noticeably shifted my obstacles to vacuuming"). By weaving together examples from her own and other parents' lives, Schonbrun creates an effective guide to viewing both working and parental roles as symbiotic and mutually strengthening: "Acknowledging that we simply cannot be all in to either parenthood or work when we are actively engaged in both can help us set (and then regularly reset) realistic expectations," she writes. This will be a balm for overwhelmed working parents. (Nov.)

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