Parenting with Self-Compassion
12 Ways to Improve Your Parenting, While Being Kind to Yourself
Book • 2025
In Parenting with Self-Compassion, Dr. Jen Ferris combines professional expertise and lived experience to teach parents how self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity improve parenting.
The book presents 12 actionable strategies for communication, discipline, and building connection while reducing perfectionism and chronic stress.
Ferris emphasizes self-compassion as nervous-system support that helps parents regulate, respond more flexibly, and model resilience for their children.
She includes concrete examples and tools tailored to the added challenges of advocating for and supporting neurodivergent kids.
The book aims to shift parental self-talk from shame to acceptance, changing the emotional climate of the home.
The book presents 12 actionable strategies for communication, discipline, and building connection while reducing perfectionism and chronic stress.
Ferris emphasizes self-compassion as nervous-system support that helps parents regulate, respond more flexibly, and model resilience for their children.
She includes concrete examples and tools tailored to the added challenges of advocating for and supporting neurodivergent kids.
The book aims to shift parental self-talk from shame to acceptance, changing the emotional climate of the home.
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Emily Kircher-Morris
Self-Compassion, Mindfulness, and Letting Go of Perfect
