Summary: More than 60 mothers from a variety of situations and backgrounds, present inspiring ideas, poignant stories, and practical applications to help mothers find great success and personal growth in the beautiful and challenging work of raising the next generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 306.8 DELNicogossian, Claire
Summary: "A few years ago, Dr. Claire Nicogossian began noticing a trend in her therapy room: Mothers are struggling with the challenging and unexpected emotions that surface during their journey through motherhood. In the confines of a safe, judgment-free space, they share about the heavy guilt they carry from losing control and yelling at their children; the crippling fear that they are failing their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8743 NICMeeker, Meg.
Summary: The biggest book yet from Dr. Meg Meeker, the author of the hit Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, focuses on the author's years of expertise with mothers and what she's learned about creating new, healthy emotional habits that will vastly improve women's lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 646.70085 MEEVieira, Becky
Summary: "Enough already with all those guides solely focused on caring for a screaming, crying, pooping infant! New moms deserve better. Writer Becky Vieira wants to help them unapologetically prioritize self-care, create healthy boundaries, and stay sane in our newborn-obsessed culture. Drawing on her own experiences as well as interviews with both moms and experts, she gets to the bottom of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8743 VIEDubin, Minna
Summary: "Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by hard, thankless full-time parenting work and feeling her career slip away from her, she would find herself screaming at her child or exploding in anger at her husband. Despite the pressure she felt to suffer in silence, Minna chose to talk publicly about her experiences, kicking off an international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 DUBMeeker, Margaret J.
Summary: The critically acclaimed author of "Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters," puts her 25 years' experience as a practicing pediatrician and counselor into a sound, sane approach to reshaping the frustrating, exhausting lives of so many moms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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Summary: "Book Description "For anyone who is a mother, or who has a mother, [Mom Genes] is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is at once utterly ordinary and wondrously strange." -Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUCEdelman, Hope.
Summary: Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoirs, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDEZiegler, Sheryl
Summary: A practical handbook for modern moms outlines recommendations for avoiding impossible standards of perfection, sharing real-world suggestions for breaking burnout cycles and protecting children from the damage of overwhelmed-parenting dynamics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 ZIEIovine, Vicki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8743 IOVMeeker, Margaret J.
Summary: The pressure on women today has pushed many American mothers to the breaking point. It feels as if "doing your best" is never enough to please everyone, and the demands mothers place on themselves are both impossible and unrealistic. Now Meg Meeker puts her twenty-five years' experience as a practicing pediatrician and counselor into a sound, sane approach to reshaping the frustrating,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010