It Starts with You, Nicole Schwarz, LMFT
It Starts with You, Nicole Schwarz, LMFT
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It Starts with You
How Imperfect Parents Can Find Calm and Connection with Their Kids

Author: Nicole Schwarz, LMFT, Rebecca Eanes

Narrator: Eleanor Caudill

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022

Synopsis

As parents, we want to shape our children into emotionally mature and healthy human beings. But we cannot effectively shape our children's emotional well-being until we've addressed our own traumas and emotional needs.

In It Starts with You, marriage and family therapist and parent coach Nicole Schwarz offers a nonjudgmental, shame-free guide to parenting children with a calm confidence. Working from a place of grace and compassion, she encourages us to explore how our history, thoughts, and assumptions impact our parenting decisions. Moving away from traditional discipline strategies, Schwarz focuses on the importance of having a calm brain, connected relationships, respectful conversations, and a coaching mindset with our kids.

It Starts with You lays out a five-step process you can turn to whenever you're stuck in a difficult parenting situation. Each step is grounded in research and presented in a way that is easy to understand. Rather than adding unnecessary pressure, we learn that kids do not need perfect parents, but parents who are willing to learn, grow, and move forward with them in a positive direction.

About Nicole Schwarz, LMFT

Nicole Schwarz is a licensed marriage and family therapist and parent coach with over fifteen years of experience working with families and children in various settings. She is the owner of Imperfect Families, LLC, coaching parents to use positive, respectful parenting strategies. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and three daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kj on February 21, 2023

If this were the first parenting book I read, it would have been fantastic because it introduces info from several sources. But because I have read several and had a parent coach for two years, none of this felt new.......more

Goodreads review by Stephani on February 17, 2022

As a mother and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, my personal and professional experiences have shown me that parenting is different now than it has been for previous generations as we navigate using research and brain based science to guide us. Science tells us that connection and co-regula......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on April 06, 2022

Every chapter of this book holds help and encouragement that YOU need in order to be the parent your kids need: imperfect, but good-enough. By “It Starts With You,” Schwarz is referring to the self-awareness, self-compassion, self-regulation, grace-for-self that parents can cultivate first, in a way......more

Goodreads review by Jen on February 15, 2022

This book helped me take a good look at my parenting. Nicole helped me see that I am capable of rewriting the narrative in such a way that it is more aligned with my priorities and values. One of the biggest takeaways for me is understanding that I don't have to get it right 100% of the time. I am d......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 01, 2022

It Starts with You’ hits it out of the park as a down-to-earth guide for mindful parents. Sensible, heartfelt advice and relatable stories bring clarity to many situations. Nicole gently helps us see our responsibility as caregivers in a fresh way and as a golden opportunity without any guilt or pre......more

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