Becoming a Calm Mom, Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD
Becoming a Calm Mom, Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD
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Becoming a Calm Mom
How to Manage Stress and Enjoy the First Year of Motherhood

Author: Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2023

Synopsis

Having a new baby is a life-changing event that brings both delight and doubt in its wake. All new moms have thoughts such as Why can't I soothe my baby? Are other new moms handling motherhood better than I am? Is it selfish to want time for myself now that I have a baby who needs me? Will my partner and I ever stop squabbling now that baby makes three?

These kinds of thoughts can lead even the most confident women to feel stressed out and anxious.

Author Deborah Roth Ledley is a mother of two and a clinical psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders and works with new mothers. In this book she introduces six simple strategies to handle the inevitable stress we all experience during the first year of motherhood.

The Calm Mom Toolbox includes strategies for healthy thinking, behavior, communication, and decision-making, as well as relaxation skills and approaches to nurturing existing and new relationships. Rather than simply giving advice, Becoming a Calm Mom teaches skills to help new moms function better, and gain more enjoyment from this exciting stage of life.

About Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD

Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in suburban Philadelphia. She spent several years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety. Dr. Ledley's research has focused on the nature and treatment of anxiety. She has published over fifty scientific papers and book chapters as well as several books, including Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work, Third Edition; Improving Outcomes and Preventing Relapse in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; Becoming a Calm Mom; and The Worry Workbook for Kids. She lectures widely on the treatment of childhood anxiety.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on August 30, 2020

Let's just file this one under "Should be Required Reading." It is so refreshing to read about a newborn parenting method that doesn't just acknowledge that the mother is a human being, but that the mother is important. In fact, this book focuses on the perspective that a happy and taken care of mot......more

Goodreads review by Sara on March 30, 2010

One of the things that I really appreciated about this book is that it focuses not so much on how to take care of your baby (God knows there are a million books that will tell you how to do that) but on how to manage your own reactions to the inevitable stress of parenthood. I appreciated the emphas......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on March 25, 2020

I would recommend this book to every mom I know. I don’t know how useful it would be for a second child, as this is my first, but it was really helpful to add to my CBT toolbox and also read that things I was feeling were totally normal. There are also resources in the back on where to get help if n......more

Goodreads review by Tedi on February 25, 2019

Great book for moms, or even women looking to help manage stress.......more

Goodreads review by Beth on December 20, 2017

This was fairly basic but still helpful.......more

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