Pregnancy & Parenthood

In Remaining You While Raising Them, Alli Worthington offers a guilt-free, often hilarious, empowering, research-informed guide to help modern mothers learn to better care for their own emotional, spiritual, and physical health so they can rediscover the beauty, the joy, and the sacred and secret art of confident motherhood.

Lovely and unique ice skater illustrations with a simple story make this a beautiful little book for your coffee table, for gifting and reading. 6x9" 27 pages

The author searches for meaning in a life characterized by feast or famine, instability and death. Ultimately she discovers that life's struggles place her right where she is meant to be.

A Dance in the DSM: My Tango with Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and OCD is a memoir chronicles one mother's journey through mental health struggles.It is a story of hope that mixes the humor of parenting with the horrors of developing a mental health crisis and living with the rare disorder: postpartum OCD.This memoir follows the author through the beginning of her first pregnancy (when she developed peripartum anxiety), through her postpartum experience (when she was diagnosed with postpartum OCD), and throughout her subsequent full recovery (with medication and professional help). She spares no embarrassing detail, including a first person perspective of her nervous breakdown. In an irreverent and humorous voice, Jessica highlights the lack of resources, isolation, and the pressures that new mothers face, and takes readers on her journey to health and happiness."This book is a funny, poignant and timely wake up call to the vital issue of postpartum depression and its treatment. Jessica leads us through the onset, progression and recovery of this serious medical event, as well as the likelihood of full recovery. It also points to the difficulty of patients and their support system in separating normal "baby blues" from the more severe biological illness." -Peter Mohrer, MD, Former Instructor, Yale School of Medicine"...an engaging authorial voice" - Carol Killman Rosenberg, Writer, Editor, & Book Coach

It felt like a ton of bricks had just fallen on me. Oh, who could imagine such pain? Suddenly, I was divorced with two young daughters. What was I going to do? How would I make it in this world? Have you ever experienced this type of pain? Well, I was not the first, nor the last, to travel this path. Life has a way of throwing curve balls, but it is up to you and me to fight with all our might. In the end - WE WIN! In my book, I Made It & You Can Too, get ready to discover how I experienced victory amid the storm.

This book, although about my life, I hope you experience it as a narrative about the questions, challenges, and decisions we all make in life. Often, we're afraid to ask hard questions, fearing the start of a word war, ending in a communication catastrophe, or family collapse. Asking hard questions reduces being defined by an organization or someone who wants to limit or categorize you. When I don't ask hard questions of myself, my motives, or my actions, I typically settle for the minimum out of life instead of embracing all that life can deliver. Reading this book or using it in a group setting will open your mind to seeking greater connectedness and increased self-awareness. Asking hard questions can stimulate deeper thinking, help define purpose in life, and generate enthusiasm for living in new, more fulfilling ways. It's taken a lifetime to realize a lack of questions leads to ignorance, failure, and despair. I'm a grandfather, husband, and father who grew up as a mid-west farm boy, one of eight children, where stability and connectedness were cornerstones of our traditional family and community. I like leading small groups, preaching, speaking, and traveling. I'm a busy amateur photographer who takes long walks. I have a BSME and MDiv; both took ten years to achieve. I started a software development company in my thirties. Twenty-five years later, after my M.Div. I received a call to a Lutheran pastorate. I'm retired and live with my wife of 55 years in the cold north. We have two adult children, two grandchildren, and a dog. I have not arrived; I don't believe we ever reach perfection; humans are imperfect, but we're always striving for a taste of the life to come.

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