Navigate Teen Challenges with Clarity
Follow therapist and parenting coach Cathy Cassani Adams empowering advice to help your teenager follow their happiness in an evolving society.
#1 New Release in Teen Health, and in Parenting Girls
Help your teenage girl prepare to face the world. So many girls are facing challenges every day, with the next generation seeing more skyrocketing diagnoses of depression and anxiety than ever before. While we might not be able to stop every trial that comes their way, we can still help our daughters persevere with strong self-confidence in themselves. Restoring Our Girls is an empowering book for girls ages 12-25 and their parents to use when facing tough situations in todays world. With professional insight on societys impact on young womanhood and ways to recognize and process it, you can help your child use their mental and emotional skills to achieve the fulfilling life they deserve.
Become the role model that she needs. Teenage mental health can feel isolating for both you and your teenager. Oftentimes, they will feel uncomfortable bringing up serious struggles to you for fear of being unseen or rejected. That is why author Cathy Cassani Adams is here on how to engage in uplifting communication through compassion and a willingness to learn. Using her methods for meaningful listening and action, your daughter will see how being genuine can open so many doors to true happiness.
Each chapter inside Restoring Our Girls covers all the complexities your teenager will face, including:
- A Guide for Navigating Real Conversations: Learn how to engage in meaningful conversations with your daughter while minimizing conflict
- Insights from Our Girls: Discover what your daughters wish we understood better
- The Power of Prioritizing Your Relationship: Understand how focusing on connection can ease challenges and ensure a healthy and trusting relationship now and as they grow
So if youre looking for books for parents and their daughters like Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers, or The Sleep-Deprived Teen, youll love Restoring Our Girls.
Follow parenting coach Cathy C. Adams empowering advice to help your teenager follow their happiness in an evolving society.
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Restoring Our Girls empowers parents by offering them a blueprint for engaging in the real conversation our girls so desperately need right now. With compassion and empathy, Adams guides parents to focus on what really matters: listening, understanding, and supporting our daughters. In the process, Adams also offers critical insights that enable parents to gain a deeper understanding of themselves. This is a game-changing book for modern parents who want their daughters to thrive in adolescence and beyond.
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic And What We Can Do About It
By masterfully equipping parents with skills to engage in conscious communication with their teen daughters, this critically essential book is aimed to help both navigate and thrive through the storms of adolescence in a way that not only keeps them connected but allows the children to emerge into empowered adults. A book I wish my parents had during my teen years, this is an urgent and priceless read.
Dr. Shefali, clinical psychologist and NYT bestselling author
If you once marveled at the spirit and personality of your little girl but find yourself baffled lately at where that vibrant person has gone, read this book. Cathy tackles the systemic, political, and cultural issues that complicate girlhood today, in the process giving parents the language to confidently and convincingly talk with their daughters about remaining true to themselves despite crushing pressure to conform.
Michelle Icard, author of Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success
Restoring Our Girls is the guide that daughters deserve to have parents read. Cathy Cassani Adams is an experienced and trustworthy guide, teaching us to listen, engage, and support our girls in such a way that they can fearlessly and unquestioningly embody their most authentic selves. As a therapist, mother, and auntie, I am so grateful for this book.
Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist, faculty at Northwestern University, bestselling author of Love Every Day, and host of the podcast, Reimagining Love
Restoring Our Girls is a gem of a book. Generation X, in particular, has worked hard to raise young women who know themselves better than we did, with the ultimate hope that they are able to blend an abiding self-love and a deep empathy for others to create an inner foundation that lasts a lifetime. This is no easy feat, and one that took many of us decades to integrate fully into our own lives. This book gives parents a blueprint for how it might be done with love, humor, embrace of paradox, respect for nuance, and real talk. The journey that Cathy highlights for us is often messy, but its thorough and honest, and the rewards are great. Young girls who, from the beginning, develop a greater self-awareness and an acknowledgment of how their lives intersect with a big, beautiful world, eventually become women with the capacity to live more fully and joyfully in their own skin. I hope this book reaches the hands of many.
Annie Burnside, author of Soul to Soul Parenting and From Role to Soul
If you have girls in your life, you need this book! Cathy Cassani Adams understands how girls are struggling and has done the real work to understand what they need. Restoring Our Girls walks parents, care givers, and anyone who has girls in their lives through real conversations and authentic communication that connects and heals. Restoring Our Girls gives a refreshing and wise perspective on how to navigate the unsettled waters of girlhood without talking down to either parents or girlsquite a feat! For girls everywhere I couldn't be happier that this book is in the world.
Hunter Clarke-Fields, author of Raising Good Humans and creator of Mindful Parenting
Papildus informācija
Cathy Adams will use her extensive network and social media following to promote the book:
Email: 5000+ contacts Podcast: 15,000+ listeners per episode, 4 million listens/downloads Instagram: 2,829 followers (zenparentingradio) Facebook: 12K followers (Zen Parenting Radio)
Cathy is the host of the 5-star rated Zen Parenting Radio, a top ten parenting podcast on iTunes, which reaches thousands of international listeners weekly. Cathy writes a Zen Parenting Moment newsletter that reaches thousands of readers every Friday, and shes the creator and facilitator of Team Zen, an app and virtual international community of parents seeking support and resources. She will use the extensive Zen Parenting platform and its conference to promote the book.
As mentioned, Cathy is the founder and host of the renowned annual Zen Parenting Conference in Chicago, which has been bringing together top parenting experts such as Cheryl Strayed, Glennon Doyle, and Rosalind Wiseman since 2016. The January 2024 Zen Parenting Conference featured esteemed speakers like Dr. Shefali Tsabary and bestselling author Michell Icard.
Contents
Foreword by Dr. John Duffy
A Note on Gender and Age
Introduction: Can You Please Tell My Parents This?
Chapter 1: Why Our Girls Need Real Conversations
Chapter 2: Why We Are Afraid of Real Conversations
Chapter 3: A Guide for Real Conversations
Chapter 4: Real Things Girls Want You to Know
Chapter 5: Real Stories from My Daughters
Conclusion: Prioritize the Relationship
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Cathy Cassani Adams, LCSW, is a certified parenting coach, teacher, and podcast host known for her profound work in empowering thousands of young women and parents. Using her previous experience in social work and education, Cathy released her 2009 debut book, The Self-Aware Parent, to help fellow parents navigate complex struggles that their daughters were facing as young women. This inspired her to start Zen Parenting Radio with her husband Todd, where they offer support and advice for not only parents and their children, but also therapists, parenting coaches, and organizations. Cathy has gone on to become a key speaker and guest for several platforms, including CBS, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, and Todays Chicago Women. Later publications include award-winning titles such as Living What You Want Your Kids to Learn and Zen Parenting. Cathy and Todd currently live in Illinois with their three children, and she teaches at Dominican University.
Dr. John Duffy is a Chicago-based clinical psychologist, bestselling author, keynote speaker and national media expert. He has been in vigorous private practice for twenty-five years, specializing in work with adolescents, young adults and their parents. He has consistently provided the tools young people need to thrive through his empathy, knowledge, experience and practice. He has written three books intended to provide parents with the tools to help their teens and young adults thrive in this persistent age of anxiety. For more than a decade, Dr. Duffy has also spoken to thousands of parents internationally through PTAs, Fortune 500 corporate programs, and other parenting networks.
Dr. Duffy has written and contributed to articles for CNN, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Your Teen and countless other media outlets. On television, he has been a regular contributing expert on NewsNation and Steve Harvey, and has shared his expertise through frequent appearances on CNN, the Today show, the Morning Blend, and hundreds of appearances on local outlets. On radio, Dr. Duffy is a regularly appearing expert on WGN, WLS and NPR. He has appeared as an expert guest on countless podcasts and has been the host of two popular podcasts himself.