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Resources for your parenting journey.

  • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts

    Author Karen Kleiman, coauthor of the seminal book This Isn't What I Expected and founder of the acclaimed Postpartum Stress Center, comes to the aid of new mothers everywhere with a groundbreaking new source of hope, compassion, and expert help.

  • The Pregnancy & Postpartum Anxiety Workbook

    Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. If you're one of many women suffering from this treatable condition, The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you control your worry, panic, and anxiety.

  • This Isn't What I Expected

    In this definitive guide, postpartum experts Karen Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin offer compassionate support and solid advice on dealing with every aspect of PPD. Their proven self-help program, which can be used alone or with a support group or therapist, will help you monitor each phase of illness, recognize when you need professional help, cope with daily life, and recover with new strength and confidence.

  • To Have and To Hold

    In To Have and To Hold, Molly Millwood explores the complex terrain of new motherhood, illuminating the ways it affects women psychologically, emotionally, physically, and professionally—as well as how it impacts their partnership.

  • What No One Tells You

    With thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why it’s natural for “matrescence”—the birth of a mother—to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence.

  • Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

    With four easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore from laundry to homework to dinner.

  • Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

    Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking-parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert - and mom of two - who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions - and stay sane in the years before preschool.

Supportive Organizations

  • Postpartum Support International

    The mission of Postpartum Support International is to promote awareness, prevention and treatment of mental health issues related to childbearing in every country worldwide.

  • The Motherhood Center of New York

    The Motherhood Center provides supportive services for new and expecting moms/birthing people, including a range of treatment options for those suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs.)

  • Resolve: The National Infertility Association

    The National Infertility Association, established in 1974, is dedicated to ensuring that all people challenged in their family building journey reach resolution through being empowered by knowledge, supported by community, united by advocacy, and inspired to act.

  • Women's Therapy Center Institute

    Established in 1981 as The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, WTCI offers innovative clinical training based on contemporary relational theory and intersectional feminist thought.

  • The Seleni Institute

    The Seleni Institute treats, trains, supports, and advocates to improve the emotional health of individuals and their families during the family-building years.

  • Family Equality

    Founded in 1979 at the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Family Equality has spent more than 40 years ensuring that everyone has the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families by advancing equality for the LGBTQ+ community.

  • The Trevor Project

    The Trevor Project estimates that more than 1.8 million LGBTQ young people seriously consider suicide each year in the U.S. and could benefit from their services. Trained counselors connect with LGBTQ young people 24/7, 365 days a year.
    You deserve a welcoming, loving world. And so do the people you care about. At The Trevor Project, you can reach out to a counselor if you’re struggling, find answers and information, and get the tools you need to help someone else.

  • Caregiver Action Notebook

    Caregiver Action Network (CAN) is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for the more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease, or the frailties of old age.

    CAN serves a broad spectrum of family caregivers ranging from the parents of children with significant health needs, to the families and friends of wounded soldiers; from a young couple dealing with a diagnosis of MS, to adult children caring for parents with Alzheimer’s disease.

Intuitive Eating & Body Acceptance

  • The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food

    If you are ready to throw in your hat and give up on dieting for good, take heart. You can enjoy food again—you just need to pay attention to your body’s natural hunger cues. Based on the authors’ best-selling book, Intuitive Eating, this workbook can show you how.

  • The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love

    The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

  • Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

    In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness.