I've just discovered your publication and am SO exciting to read everything you've published so far on this project. As a mom myself and a holistic career coach focused on burnout and fulfillment of parents, this is something I'm so passionate about, and I'm so grateful you're here to do this type of work!!
Also, 100% agree-- we need stress management help that isn't so focused on idividual responsibility... The only solution to a system wide problem can't be to place more burden on those overly burdened to begin with!! This is my beef with most organizational sponsored stress & burnout solutions as well.
I work in the narratives/advice around infant sleep and the meta-messages sent to parents about it. The behavioral paradigm it's all based on places the responsibility for sleep problems squarely on parents (let's be real: moms), and if sleep training doesn't work, places the blame there too. Advice also ratchets up the stakes if parents don't start sleep training practically right after birth. Parents need sleep, but experts have also made them unnecessarily freaked out about their ability to figure out how to capably get it. I talk to new moms every day who already feel pressured, incompetent, and guilty.
Yes! Sounds like the sleep training advice hits in a similar camp as lactation help. It's all in the language. The goals of the language. And the individual nuance needed in giving guidance without pressure. Does that sound right?
I've just discovered your publication and am SO exciting to read everything you've published so far on this project. As a mom myself and a holistic career coach focused on burnout and fulfillment of parents, this is something I'm so passionate about, and I'm so grateful you're here to do this type of work!!
Also, 100% agree-- we need stress management help that isn't so focused on idividual responsibility... The only solution to a system wide problem can't be to place more burden on those overly burdened to begin with!! This is my beef with most organizational sponsored stress & burnout solutions as well.
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thank you, Lydia!
Please continue to chime in on posts with your expert view into this space too!
I work in the narratives/advice around infant sleep and the meta-messages sent to parents about it. The behavioral paradigm it's all based on places the responsibility for sleep problems squarely on parents (let's be real: moms), and if sleep training doesn't work, places the blame there too. Advice also ratchets up the stakes if parents don't start sleep training practically right after birth. Parents need sleep, but experts have also made them unnecessarily freaked out about their ability to figure out how to capably get it. I talk to new moms every day who already feel pressured, incompetent, and guilty.
Yes! Sounds like the sleep training advice hits in a similar camp as lactation help. It's all in the language. The goals of the language. And the individual nuance needed in giving guidance without pressure. Does that sound right?
Would love to talk with you more about this!