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Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child's First Year
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.
Easy ten-minute meditation exercises...more
Easy ten-minute meditation exercises...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published
May 1st 2009
by New Harbinger Publications
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This is an ideal read if you're a Mum-to-be or a Mum with a young baby in desperate need of mindfulness to help you keep grounded. I picked up this book when my own baby was 4 months old. I was desperately sick of baby sleep books and expert-opinions. What I really needed were simply some tools to help me navigate the ups-and-downs (and the unexpected!) of being a first time Mum.
I found the book very well structured and quite easy to read (essential when you're sleep deprived!). It offers a love...more
I found the book very well structured and quite easy to read (essential when you're sleep deprived!). It offers a love...more
As a person who has dealt with periods of anxiety, this book was just what I needed to put my mind and heart in the proper perspective with the upcoming birth of our new baby. It has even helped me overcome insomnia. Even if you're not a mother, the practice of mindfulness is something that every person could benefit by learning about.
Love, love, love this book! Oh, how I wish I would have had this book when I was pregnant with my first child. I have recently become interested in mindfulness and becoming a more patient mom and found this book. It is SO helpful (and my youngest is 6 years old). I love it.
I added this because it was a project of the Institute of Noetic Science that I learned about in Dan Brown's latest book. It's pretty repetitive if you just sit down and read it. But I really liked a lot of the thinking and meditating skills, they are life applicable, not just useful with a new baby.
Might be better to read one chapter at a time over a few months if you are really trying to use it in your life.
Might be better to read one chapter at a time over a few months if you are really trying to use it in your life.
I read this one slowly so I could start using what I learned as I read. This had lots of useful stuff--and not just for the parts of my life where I'm in a mom role.
Mar 29, 2009
Mindy
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
moms open to Eastern ideas who aren't practicing Buddhists
Definitely sold me on the concept of mindfulness. This is a great intro for a mom looking for focus. I will definitely be reading more about mindfulness/Buddhism. Highly recommended to other moms/moms-to-be.
This was a really nice combination of meditation instruction and reflections on parenting.
I really loved what I read of this book. I checked it out of the library and wanted to savor it, which meant I put off reading it too long and had to return it (other folks had it on hold, so I couldn't renew). But my short perusal convinced me it is one worth having on my keeper bookshelf!
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