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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

Read on creatingafamily.org

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Un-Settling: How to Help Your Kids by Making and Modeling an Amazing Life After Divorce

Un-Settling speaks to mothers and their children who have settled enough already―to mothers whose marriage they’d settled for no longer worked, who took a big leap and resolved to build something better for their kids.

Maggie McReynolds

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The Motherhood Complex: The Story of Our Changing Selves

Enriched with discoveries from biology, psychology and social science, The Motherhood Complex is a journey to the heart of what it means to become a mother.

Melissa Hogenboom

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The Natural Remedy Book for Women

Provides an alternative to traditional medical care for minor health problems, discussing the use of holistic healing methods including vitamins, acupressure, minerals, herbs, and naturopathy.

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Emotional Labor: How to Stop Doing All the Work

In the episode, I share an article I read recently with some simple strategies a woman used that really made a difference in making her “invisible” emotional labor visible to her husband.

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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

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Dealing With Depression, Mental Health

I’ve never openly talked about or shared my experience with depression, but I’ve been feeling lately that I should share with you guys my experience in the hopes that I can help someone out there dealing with it.

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Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fearz

Thousands of Black women suffer from anxiety. What’s worse is that many of us have been raised to believe we are Strong Black Women and that seeking help shows weakness.

Angela Neal-Barnett

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A New Way to Think About the Transition to Motherhood | Alexandra Sacks

When a baby is born, so is a mother—but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression.

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich’s influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own―as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother―but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere.

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Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America

A groundbreaking exposé and diagnosis of the silent epidemic of fear afflicting new mothers, and a candid, feminist deep dive into the culture, science, history, and psychology of contemporary motherhood. Anxiety among mothers is a growing but largely unrecognized crisis.

Sarah Menkedick

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Foster Parenting