Mommy Burnout, Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler
Mommy Burnout, Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler
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Mommy Burnout
How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

Author: Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/20/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The ultimate handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the ""perfect mom,"" filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause.Moms, do you feel tired? Overwhelmed? Have you continually put off the things you need to do for you? Do you feel like it’s all worth it because your kids are happy? Are you ""over"" being a mother? If you answered yes to these questions, you’re not alone. Parents today want to create the ideal childhood for their children. Women strive to be the picture-perfect Pinterest mother that looks amazing, hosts the best birthday parties in town, posts the most ""liked"" photos, and serves delicious, nutritious home-cooked meals in her neat, organized home after ferrying the kids to school and a host of extracurricular activities on time.This drive, while noble, can also be destructive, causing stress and anxiety that leads to ""mommy burnout."" Psychologist and family counselor Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is well-versed in the stress that moms face, and the burden of guilt they carry because they often feel like they aren’t doing enough for their kids’ happiness. A mother of three herself, Dr. Z—as she’s affectionately known by her many patients—recognizes and understands that modern moms are all too often plagued by exhaustion, failure, isolation, self-doubt, and a general lack of self-love, and their families are also feeling the effects, too.Over the last nineteen years working with families and children, Dr. Z has devised a prescriptive program for addressing ""mommy burnout""—teaching moms that they can learn to re-energize themselves and still feel good about their families and their lives. In this warm and empathetic guide, she examines this modern epidemic among mothers who put their children’s happiness above their own, and offers empowering, proven solutions for alleviating this condition, saving marriages and keeping kids happy in the process.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler

Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Denver, with more than two decades of experience treating tweens, teens and their families in the areas of anxiety, trauma, depression, chronic stress and adjustment disorders. Ziegler is the creator of Start with The Talk™, a puberty skills course for parents and kids available in-person and online that has helped over a thousand families and counting. She’s a nationally recognized expert on the intersection of puberty and mental health and is regularly featured in the media as such. She is the author of Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim your Life and Raise Healthier Children (Dey Street, 2018), which won Best Parenting Book of the Year by the International Latino Book Awards Foundation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on September 18, 2018

First of all, I'd like to sincerely apologize to everyone I recommended this book to before I finished reading it. It has some glaring problems that I think future readers need to be aware of before picking it up. 1) It is extremely heteronormative. Each chapter contains a case study and EVERY SINGLE......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 07, 2018

When I think of self-help books, I think one of three things. 1- it is going to be a lot of new-age hippie mumbo jumbo about the healing powers of essential oils or getting in touch with the Earth or some other opinions with no actual proven efficacy. 2- it will tell you all the thinks you do wrong......more

Goodreads review by Erin on April 26, 2018

This book offers advice for the modern mom who feels like she needs to do 1,000 things for her family, her home, and herself. Dr. Ziegler had been a child psychologist for many years when she noticed that many of the mothers shared the same issues too. She labeled this feeling of constant stress as......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on December 31, 2019

If your mommy burnout can be solved by a few girls weekends to the spa, then this book is for you. If you do not have the financial or logistic support for that - then you probably won’t find much useful in this book - other than a facial workout as you roll your eyes a lot. Great concept - but devo......more

Goodreads review by Diana on August 08, 2019

I usually find a lot to complain about with self help books, but I really enjoyed this one. Dr. Ziegler presented real life case studies in each chapter from her therapy practice, and I found the examples to be relatable and interesting. Her chapters are centered around themes - building a support n......more