7 Stories Up at SNFL: Hilary Jacobs Hendel with Catherine Birndorf: Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive
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Psychotherapist, emotions educator, and author Hilary Jacobs Hendel joins us to discuss her latest book, Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive, with reproductive psychiatrist and founder of The Motherhood Center of New York, Dr. Catherine Birndorf.
This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor.
Parents Have Feelings, Too is an emotions playbook for family wellness. With 1 in 5 moms experiencing anxiety or depression, and over 60% of parents struggling with burnout, parents need tools to support their emotional well-being. Parents Have Feelings, Too illuminates the emotional lives of mothers and fathers, providing parents with practical emotional savvy so they can work with their emotions, as well as their children's, with greater calm and confidence. Attendees will leave this event with paradigm-shifting ideas.
Parents desperately need real, actionable, long-lasting advice that helps them process their emotions in a healthy and productive way. In Parents Have Feelings, Too, psychotherapists Hilary Jacobs Hendel and Juli Fraga provide the tools parents need to understand and effectively work with their own potent feelings, breaking the chain of intergenerational trauma, and passing along emotional intelligence to their children to create a generation of people with emotional regulation skills.
Parents Have Feelings, Too includes the following:
- Practical strategies to help parents process their feelings
- Stories and examples
- Tools that build confidence and emotional know-how in their children
- New approaches that break the intergenerational transfer of trauma so parents can raise emotionally healthier people who can thrive amidst the many challenges of being human in society today
- Expert insights and insight-building exercises that support parents on their emotional journey
Parents have feelings. And when they can identify what they are, where they are coming from, and how to work with them, parents are empowered to help their children understand and navigate their own emotions.
To join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW is an AEDP psychotherapist, emotions educator, and author. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Columbia University, and Fordham University. Hilary is the author of the acclaimed book It’s Not Always Depression (Random House), which has been translated into multiple languages and is used worldwide to teach emotions education with a tool she adapted for public health called the Change TriangleTM. Her second book, Parents Have Feelings, Too, equips caregivers with emotional tools to raise resilient children. Hilary’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Oprah, and Psychology Today. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City. She was also the mental health consultant for the award-winning television show MadMen.
Catherine Birndorf, MD is a Reproductive Psychiatrist and the Founder, CEO, and Medical Director of The Motherhood Center of New York. Dr. Birndorf is the Founding Director of the Payne Whitney Women’s Program at Weill Cornell Medicine – New York-Presbyterian Hospital. In addition, she is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. A graduate of Smith College, Dr. Birndorf attended Brown University Medical School and did her Psychiatry Residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. A past Postpartum Support International board member, Dr. Birndorf now serves on the President’s Advisory Council.For ten years, Dr. Birndorf was a regular mental health columnist for Self Magazine and has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and CNN. Dr. Birndorf’s first book, The Nine Rooms of Happiness, was an NYTimes bestseller published in 2010. Her most recent book, published by Simon & Schuster in 2019, is entitled What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood.
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In-Person
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The 7 Stories Up Series at SNFL is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).