Debbie Pokornik

Break Free of Parenting Pressures: Embrace Your Natural Guidance Debbie Pokornik

When we believe something is natural we think it should be easy.  When we think something should be easy we tend to beat ourselves up if we don't have the answers or don't do it well.  This opens the door to self-doubt, uncertainty, harsh judgment, and second guessing.
In Break Free of Parenting Pressures, author and parent educator, Debbie Pokornik, urges parents to throw off the shackles that come with this way of thinking and tune into the inner wisdom required to enjoy and excel at this task. Very little about parenting is truly natural, meaning personal development and a willingness to learn or adapt will always be required.
Written in a gentle, friendly style, this book shares stories about the author's personal parenting adventures, focusing not only on her successes, but her "moments of learning" as well. She provides insight into where our current skills and strategies come from and enlightens us on how we might adapt them to ensure they are meeting our parenting goals.  
"The parenting experience is unique to each of us," Debbie says, "but I believe all parents will benefit from support at some point in their parenting journey." Awareness, open-mindedness, a willingness to practice and adaptability are all important pieces of the parenting puzzle and this book provides plenty of tips and exercises to help parents do all of these things. The book concludes with a chapter on self-care focused on helping parents de-stress and take stock of what they can realistically handle in their lives. 
"I really hope parents reading my book come away feeling tuned into their natural ability and confident they have what it takes to do this job. There is no one way to parent and I'd love it if my book could remove a lot of the self-doubt parents feel so readers fully enjoy this journey and build strong loving relationships as a result."