I haven’t finished yet, so I can’t give it my full endorsement, but so far I think that it is a really useful book for any parent or caregiver to read. Even as someone in the field that already knows what he is talking about, I think it is all a very good reminder and definitely provides information that people outside of the children’s mental health scope wouldn’t otherwise know. he writes in a very nonjudgmental way, and it is a quick read.
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I’m a children’s therapist and a mother so it quite literally is on my brain 24/7.
Grateful for the duel role because my work makes me a better mother, and being a mother makes me a better therapist.
I could say so much on the subject but I probably wouldn’t stfu so I just won’t even start 🫶 but if anyone wants to chat I’m always down!
Jul 4, 2024
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TBH I find her affect extremely grating, but "Good Inside" is a transformative book, and it's helping me parent myself as much as it's preparing me to be a parent.
Jan 29, 2024
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I’m not sure I’d really recommend this because it’s more exhausting and permanently life-altering than almost any other thing you could imagine. But being a parent connects me to others in a way I had never experienced before having my own kid.
I love every child because I love my child. I believe every person is trying their best, is trying to be good, because I see that in him. I feel connected to the grief and suffering of other parents because I see how to love your child is necessarily to be on the knife’s edge of grief at all times. I have found parenting politically radicalizing because I cannot accept that my child deserves more than other children, that he gets to be safe and fed and surrounded by infinite possibility when most others are not.
Having a kid has not necessarily made me happier, but it has given me a deeper understanding of the human condition, and I am grateful for that.
Mar 16, 2024
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For some reason this brings me into my parasympathetic nervous system
Mar 28, 2025
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Humans have always danced. It is part of who we are, yet we have been conditioned to be self conscious, to think that we do not move our bodies good enough. Dancing is beyond judgement. Dancing is not a skill, it is our soul moving through our bodies, expressed in movement. Dancing is healing. Dancing is bodily autonomy. Dancing is FUN! Any feeling you are feeling can be moved through with dance yet even alone, you fear looking foolish. Kill the judge in your mind, shut the fuck up, and MOVE 🌊
Apr 24, 2025
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Sometimes non action is the best action
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