Work, Parent, Thrive
12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much)
2023 NAPPA Award Winner
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
Working parenthood can be overwhelming, frustrating, and riddled with guilt. It can also be a source of joy, inspiration, and creativity. Balancing rich scientific research with friendly, supportive tips and anecdotes, Yael Schonbrun offers a toolkit to help even the most stressed of working parents grow the good while better managing inevitable challenges. She banishes the idea that the key to ultimate working parenthood is the ability to do it all. Instead, the key is to learn how these roles, together, can help you thrive!
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Praise for Work, Parent, Thrive
"In a moment when we’re all drowning in demands, this book is an engaging, evidence-based analysis on how we can stay afloat. As a working parent, it will save you more time than it takes to read." —Adam Grant, The New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife
"Work, Parent, Thrive is an essential antidote to today’s stressful working-parent culture. Yael Schonbrun shares simple and useful strategies for parents who want to feel grounded, connected, and fulfilled in all aspects of their lives." —Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes
"Combining work and parenting is overwhelming, and too often we feel they are in conflict. This book provides simple, practical tools for making them work together." —Emily Oster, author of Cribsheet and The Family Firm
"This might as well have been called ‘How to Be a Happier Working Parent’—and it will, indeed, help you do just that." —KJ Dell’Antonia, The New York Times best-selling author of The Chicken Sisters and How to Be a Happier Parent
"If you want life advice from a dry scientific text, put this book down now. But if you want a book that feels like a conversation with a smart, empathetic friend who’s seen it all and helped countless clients improve their lives—and can help you with yours—read Work, Parent, Thrive." —Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Rest
"This book is for every working parent who thinks they don’t have the time to read it. Make time! Yael Schonbrun combines academic scholarship, clinical expertise, and personal experience as a mother of three to offer deeply wise advice on how to manage our inner lives while we wait for society to make the outer lives of we working parents more manageable." —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice and Why We Work
"Parenting is hard. Working is hard. Caring deeply about both is even harder. In an area rife with judgment, hot-takes, and ‘hacks,’ thank goodness for Yael Schonbrun. She offers much needed nuance and complexity and provides an evidence-based framework to harmoniously integrate what, for many people, are the two most important parts of their lives—family and craft." —Brad Stulberg, author of The Practice of Groundedness and Master of Change
"Reading Work, Parent, Thrive is like chatting with a knowledgeable best buddy, one brimming with fascinating stories, cutting-edge science, and practical tips from the therapy room. Yael Schonbrun offers a way to accept our working-parent reality and use elements from both worlds to our advantage. It’s just what every working parent needs!" —Michele Borba, Ed.D., educational psychologist and author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
"An invaluable roadmap for thriving in working parenthood." —Lori Gottlieb, The New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone