A Note From Nancy
We live in interesting times. In many ways we’ve never been safer, healthier and more economically secure. But with those forms of “metric-oriented” security has come a deep insecurity, an uncertainty that touches all of our lives.
As parents, educators and community leaders, we’re tasked with managing these new risks. But it’s our kids who are on the front lines of facing them. Our kids go to school—what should be safe and secure places of learning—with the spectre of mass-casualty gun violence hanging over them.
They have to navigate treacherous straits of social and digital media, where the tiniest misstep can prove fatal to their self-worth, even their sense of self.
They face the prospects of climate collapse and pandemic—in addition to all the social and personal concerns that fill our lives.
And when they come home, we too often don’t know what to say to them. We face a wall of silence. We face their phones. We can’t connect.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. While the how-to parenting guides might tell you to adopt this or that model, the reality is that you have all the tools and resources you need to raise resilient, healthy kids.
My mission—as a therapist, social worker, author, speaker, and mother—is to help people break through the many forms of “emotional lockdown” which keep us from serving as that safety net for our kids.
My mission is simple: Only when we bring our whole, complete, flawed and authentic selves to our roles as parents, educators and members of a community can we raise kids resilient enough to handle the many challenges of life today.