Girls on the Brink Audiobook Libro.fm

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15 revelatory strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls based on cuttingedge science that explains the modern pressures that make it so difficult for adolescent girls to thrive

Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters students and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and selfharming than ever before The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is Why

Now we have answers As awardwinning writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in Girls on the Brink new findingsreveal that the crisis facing todays girls is a biologically rooted phenomenon the earlier onset of puberty mixes badly with the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence it can alter the female stressimmune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development

But our new understanding of the biology of modern girlhood yields good news too Though puberty is a particularly critical and vulnerable period it is also a time during which the female adolescent brain is highly flexible and responsive to certain kinds of support and scaffolding Indeed we know now that a girls innate sensitivity to her environment can with the right conditions become hersuperpower Jackson Nakazawa details the common denominators of such support shedding new light on the keys to preventing mental health concerns in girls as well as helping those who are already struggling Drawing on insights from both the latest science and interviews with girls about their adolescent experiences the author carefully guides adults through fifteen antidote strategies to help any teenage girl thrive in the face of stress including how to nurture the parentchild connection through the rollercoaster of adolescence core ingredients to building a sense of safety and security for your teenage girl at home and how to foster the foundations of longterm resilience in our girls so theyre ready to face the world

Neuroprotective and healing the strategies in Girls on the Brink amount to a new playbook for how weparents families and the human tribecan secure a healthy emotional inner life for all of our girls

Includes a downloadable PDF of resources from the book