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Unfollowing Mum
Break unhealthy patterns and be the parent you wish you’d had
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Empowerment coach Harriet Shearsmith's life-affirming manual on how to approach parenting when you weren't parented healthily yourself. "LIFE-CHANGING AND NECESSARY" - Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author "A MUST-READ" - Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You Unfollowing Mum is a supportive handbook for anyone...
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Empowerment coach Harriet Shearsmith's life-affirming manual on how to approach parenting when you weren't parented healthily yourself.
"LIFE-CHANGING AND NECESSARY" - Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author
"A MUST-READ" - Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You
Unfollowing Mum is a supportive handbook for anyone seeking to understand how the past informs their current parenting struggles, and positively move beyond them. Harriet is an empowerment coach, estranged from her own parent. She challenges narratives of unconditional acceptance and healing in parental relationships that still have a negative impact on you, and shows you how to create a new template for parenting your own children without having had healthy modelling.
The book will show you how to let go of family dysfunction and discover how to parent your children with a clean slate. You will learn how to heal your inner child, understand how to identify toxic traits you've experienced, and to find different pathways to break free from these wounds through self-compassion and honest connection with others.
With practical exercises throughout, including Cycle-Breaking journaling prompts, this book will offer advice for how to approach parenting when you are healing the way you have been parented. Learn how to forgive your own perceived parenting imperfections, and compassionately reparent your inner child in the present.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781785045172
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vermilion
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 217.0mm
Weight: 309g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Harriet Shearsmith knows first hand how challenging it can be to navigate estrangement, toxic family and dysfunctional dynamics in a digital age, where setting boundaries and protecting your peace is harder than ever. She is the host of the Unfollowing Mum podcast and on instagram @unfollowing_mum, offering support for for cycle breakers, from someone who has lived the experience. She has an engaged community of 121k followers on instagram @harrietshearsmith. Based in Yorkshire in the UK, Harriet is a breath of fresh air in the parenting world, showing how you can thrive in motherhood beyond your own parental estrangement.
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