Parenting for Humans: How to Parent the Child You Have, As the Person You Are

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In addition to doing this work, I am the founder and CEO of a wellness monitoring / suicide prevention service called Early Alert, which is used by dozens of medical schools, hospitals and first-responder agencies around the USA. I am also on the advisory board of the Jed Foundation, a national non-profit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for teens and young adults in the United States.

Often, though, because we’re human and changing stories is a hard thing to do, we hold tighter to them and wonder what we need to do differently to make that story a reality.

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We also see just how impactful people's childhoods are on their present day experience. For that reason, we felt Dr Svanberg's book was a great choice for our Welldoing Book of the Month. Her kind but straightforward guidance, much of which has been fine-tuned in her numerous hours working directly with clients, is something that we hope many of our Welldoing community will enjoy and benefit from. Did you think about what being a parent meant? What it is to begin a lifelong relationship with another human? Perhaps you had some stories in your mind about what parents are, and what they do. Stories you’ve been told since you were a baby yourself. Stories that have, perhaps, set up certain expectations for you about what ‘good’ parents do, how they behave, even how they feel inside and what they think about. Thank you! Parenting For Humans takes you through a similarprocess to the one I take clients through in therapy. Rather than offering any parenting advice, it supports you through understanding yourselfand all of the different influences on you now, not just as a parent but as a whole person. When we understand this, we can make choices about whether we actuallywant these things to influence us and how.This can also create space for us to see how these influences can colour the way we see our children and help us to see them for thewhole people they are, too. Then we can meet each other in this complex, lifelong relationship we’re in - with compassion.I’ve been told it is like ‘therapy in a book’ so I hope people can use it to support them in the often challenging task of parenting.

You are not alone if you feel like no matter how hard you are trying, you just can't quite get it 'right'. The fact is, parenting is hard and once you know this and why, you can forgive yourself for finding it a struggle, and start to look for the things that make parenting a joy. Join Emma’s session to shortcut you to happier, less stressful parenting. Emma gently guides you through each chapter, holding your hand as your embark on a journey of self discovery and reflection (which feels more curious than uncomfortable) because the one thing that can and really does get lost in the swamp of life and parenting is ‘you’. When did you decide to become a parent? Was it a conscious decision, or something that happened unexpectedly? Do you feel that you were always destined to be a parent, that it was an inevitable part of your life? Or perhaps something that you grappled with, and maybe still are? What advice would you give to a new expectant mum to help manageher stress and anxiety, and to feel empowered in the delivery room and beyond?You don’t need to have been following Alice’s Summer Parenting Diaries on LinkedIn, to be well aware of the acute pressures at play for parents as we battle through until September. To help smooth your summer - and beyond - the Step Up Club has invited clinical psychologist and author of Parenting for Humans: How To Parent The Child You Have As The Person You Are, Dr Emma Svanberg a vital, one off workshop. It sometimes feels like parenting advice is being offered every time we log on to our socials or read magazines, not to mention by well meaning friends and family! How do we know what advice we should be taking? At Welldoing we are empathetic to the enormously challenging shift that becoming a parent represents. Our content about motherhood is always popular, showing a real need for trustworthy, helpful content in this area. We also know that people reach out to us for help with post-natal depression, as well as for support with all the ups and downs of the fertility journey, which for a saddening number of people may include loss through miscarriage or other difficulties with becoming pregnant.