Mindful Motherhood - by Cassandra Vieten (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Vieten, a psychologist specializing in mood disorders as well as a mom herself, presents a mindfulness training program developed to help new mothers parent their children and manage changes in mood, stress levels, and behavior.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>From hormones to stretch marks, labor pains to diaper changes, motherhood is an adventure like none other. The rapid changes in your body, your lifestyle, and your very identity call for a certain mental agility. Mindfulness can help you meet the challenge and approach every experience with your new baby with open eyes and an open heart.</p> <p>Easy ten-minute meditation exercises and yoga poses throughout this book will help you cultivate greater flexibility and mindful awareness during pregnancy, childbirth, and your baby's first year. Whenever you have a moment to spare, open <strong>Mindful Motherhood</strong> and discover a skill that will help you find balance and fulfillment during those times when you feel most overwhelmed.</p> <p>Co-published with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).</p> <p><em><strong>Mindful Motherhood</strong> contains what so many other parenting books omit:: the consoling information that each mother has the ability to know, deep within, how to care for her child. <strong>Mindful Motherhood</strong> is a gem.</em><br> -Christiane Northrup, MD, author of <em>Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom</em></p> <p><em>Wise, soothing, and helpful-this is really good stuff for new mothers.</em><br> -Jack Kornfield, author of <em>The Wise Heart</em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<em>Mindful Motherhood</em> contains what so many other parenting books omit: the consoling information that each mother has the ability to know, deep within, how to care for her child. Mindful Motherhood is a gem."<br> --Christiane Northrup, MD, author of <em>Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom</em></p><br><br><p>"In <em>Mindful Motherhood</em>, you'll experience the wisdom of a mother, clinician, and researcher who outlines the accessible, practical steps to take to turn challenge into triumph during pregnancy and the parenting of young children. Read this book, give it as a baby shower present, carry it with you into the pediatrician's office--but most of all, take it in and savor its secrets for a richer life for yourself and your child."<br> --Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of <em>Parenting from the Inside Out</em> and <em>The Mindful Brain</em></p><br><br><p>"Mindfulness, when extended from mother to child, weaves a blanket of grounded attunement sufficient for two. Cassandra Vieten's down-to-earth suggestions will help all newly enlarged families navigate this wonderful, but often disruptive milestone."<br> --Zindel V. Segal, Ph.D., C.Psych., Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, ON, Canada</p><br><br><p>"The connection between mother and baby is one of the most spiritual relationships we have."<br> --Baba Ram Dass, also known as Richard Alpert, author of <em>Remember, Be Here Now</em></p><br><br><p>"This book will inspire, guide, and reassure mothers in pregnancy and after childbirth. Nothing could be more important to our families, our children, and the future of the world. Dads will benefit, also."<br> --Paul Ekman, Ph.D., coauthor, with the Dalai Lama, of <em>Emotional Awareness</em></p><br><br><p>"This is a beautiful book--deeply moving, intensely practical, and filled with wisdom."<br> --Ruth A. Baer, Ph.D., professor of psychology at University of Kentucky</p><br><br><p>"This is a welcome and needed book. These practical meditations for women may be a great help with prenatal and postnatal challenges. These essential psychological practices come from a woman who has earned the right to teach a classical path of human development through motherhood."<br> --Robert Bruce Newman, author of <em>Calm Birth and Calm Healing</em></p><br><br><p>"Vieten writes with love and tenderness about the mindful mother and the importance of staying in the present. Regardless of the age of your child, you will never go wrong by acting as a teacher of love and patience."<br> --Jerry Jampolsky, MD, coauthor of <em>A Mini Course for Life</em></p><br><br><p>"Wise, soothing, and helpful--this is really good stuff for new mothers."<br> --Jack Kornfield, author of <em>The Wise Heart</em></p><br><br><p>"With wisdom, depth, and humility, <em>Mindful Motherhood</em> guides us through the miraculous and challenging path of becoming a mother. It weaves together scholarship, personal experience, and practical tools, helping us become the most loving, present and joyful parents we can be. As a scholar and mother, I found this book immensely valuable."<br> --Shauna Shapiro, coauthor, with Linda Carlson, of <em>The Art and Science of Mindfulness</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, codirector of the Mind Body Medicine Research Group at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco, CA, and copresident of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology. Her research has focused on mindfulness-based approaches to cultivating emotional balance, the involvement of biology, psychology, and emotion in addiction and recovery, the role of compassionate intent and belief in healing, and the factors, experiences, and practices involved in psychospiritual transformation. She has published several academic articles and chapters, has conducted numerous presentations at international scientific conferences, and is coauthor of <strong>Living Deeply</strong>.</p> <p>Sylvia Boorstein is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and a psychotherapist, wife, mother, and grandmother who is particularly interested in seeing daily life as practice. She is the author of several books including/; It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness; Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat; That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist; Pay Attention for Goodness' Sake: The Buddhist Path of Kindness; and Happiness Is an Inside Job.</p>
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