Susan M. Pollak (Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance

Self-Compassion for Parents

Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself

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Produktbeschreibung

"I yelled at the kids again--and feel so ashamed." "I barely have time to shower, let alone exercise; no wonder Iâ m so out of shape." "I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be." Parenting is hard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781462533091
• ISBN-10: 1462533094
• Artikelnr.: 54613084

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Pollak, MTS, EdD, is cofounder and senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, where she has supervised and taught since the mid-1990s. She is past president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A longtime student of meditation and yoga, Dr. Pollak teaches about mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion in psychotherapy and has been integrating the practices of meditation into psychotherapy since the 1980s. She is author of Self-Compassion for Parents (for general readers) and coauthor of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy (for mental health professionals).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. "Make It Stop-I Can't Keep Up!": Parenting Is Overwhelming
2. "Why Is This So Hard?": Using Self-Compassion as a Life Raft
3. "Where Did That Come From?": Dealing with the Baggage We Bring to
Parenting
4. "I'll Never Be Good Enough": Avoiding the Comparison Trap
5. "What Should I Do?": Working with the Inevitable Uncertainty of
Parenting
6. "Why Can't Everyone Just Calm Down?": Handling the Inevitable Hot
Emotions
7. "It's All Too Much": Tapping the Power of Compassion When Times Are
Particularly Tough
8. Roots and Wings: The Gifts We Give Our Children
Self-Compassion for Parents Toolbox
Resources
Notes
Audio Downloads:
1. Tending to Yourself--3 minutes
2. Self-Compassion Life Saver for Parents--2 minutes
3. The Baggage We Inherit--11 minutes
4. Soles of the Feet--4 minutes
5. Having Your Back--9 minutes
6. You Don't Have to Control Everything--9 minutes
7. Three-Minute Compassion Space--4 minutes
8. Mindfulness at 4 AM--5 minutes
9. The Warm Blanket--8 minutes
10. Appreciating Yourself as a Parent--6 minutes