09/24/2025
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LAUNCHING TODAY: Recommending Hilary Jacobs Hendel's newest, "PARENTS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO!"
"This practical guide teaches parents how to understand and process their emotionsāand how to teach this valuable, life-changing skill of emotional intelligence to the next generation.
Parents Have Feelings, Too is an emotions playbook for family wellness. With 1 in 5 moms experiencing anxiety or depression, and over 60% of parents struggling with burnout, parents need tools to support their emotional well-being. Parents Have Feelings, Too illuminates the emotional lives of mothers and fathers, providing parents with practical tools and guidance so they can effectively work with their emotions, as well as their childrenās, with greater calm and confidence.
Parents desperately need real, actionable, long-lasting advice that helps them process their emotions in a healthy and productive way. In Parents Have Feelings, Too, psychotherapists Hilary Jacobs Hendel and Juli Fraga provide the tools parents need to understand and effectively work with their own potent feelings, breaking the chain of intergenerational trauma, and passing along emotional intelligence to their children to create a generation of people with emotional regulation skills."
Praise for Parents Have Feelings, Too:
āA game-changer for parents and their children.ā³
āPublishers Weekly, starred review
āThis is an empowering book. The practical exercises, real-life examples, and research-backed insights are a rare combination in a readable book. Highly recommended for parents or any adult seeking to better understand themselves and others.ā³
āBruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., author (with Oprah Winfrey) of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
āAll parents could benefit from this helpful instruction on how to welcome and process our feelings instead of acting them out in ways we regret. Youāll be a better parent and a happier person for reading this book.ā
āLindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents