Pilates For Parenting: Stretch Yourself & Strengthen Your Family is a personalized workout regime for parents, guardians, those contemplating parenthood and all who are open to assessing their parenting attitudes and adjusting their approaches as they strive to build stronger parent-child relationships. When it comes to implementing healthy roles and tackling heavy responsibilities of being a parent, Pilates For Parenting targets five strategic areas. The goals of the Warm Up, 3 Workouts and Cool Down include:
- Increasing awareness regarding the importance of parenting
- Strengthening the skill of being present for your children
- Fortifying the skill of doing what is best for your children
- Honing the skill of meeting your children's needs
- Increasing accountability as you become purposeful in your parenting
"This is not your normal 'how to' parenting book. Pilates For Parenting helps us, as caregivers, get to the heart of parenting, take time to evaluate what to do and become more in tune with our children. I will be using the parenting workouts myself and with my clients."
--Jill Osborne, EDS, LPC, CPCS, RTS, Author, Same Feels Better Now!
"In the digital age in which we live, we are often too distracted by our smartphones, social media sites and television screens. Pilates For Parenting just might be the best method for reconnecting with your children and developing stronger relationships."
--Thomas Kersting, MA, LPC, Author, Disconnected: How To Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids
"The text, workouts, activities and guiding exercises in Pilates For Parenting will equip readers with their own personalized, practical, effective game-plan as they navigate the ups and downs of becoming nurturing, protective and wise parents."
Judy Herzanek, Changing Lives Foundation, Co-author, Why Don't They Just Quit? Hope for families struggling with addiction
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Kenley, Holli: - "Holli Kenley is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a California State Licensed Teacher. She holds a Master's Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling. She has worked in a variety of settings: a women's shelter, a counseling center, and in private practice. Counseling with teens, adults, and couples, Holli's areas of specialized training and experience include sexual abuse and trauma, betrayal, codependency, cyber bullying, and screen addiction. After relocating to Southern California, Holli reopened her private practice in Rancho Mirage. Holli Kenley is the author of eight recovery books including: - Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering The Peace Within, 2nd Edition - Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children - Holli is also a contributing author and Wellness Editor for Clear Life Magazine. Holli Kenley, M.A., MFT, also works in the field of psychology as an author, speaker, and workshop presenter. She has been a six time peer presenter at the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists' Annual State Conferences and a featured or keynote speaker at college level clinical programs, state and national advocacy organ¬izations, and educational institutions speaking on the topics of bullying, cyber bullying, betrayal, relapse, screen dependency, sexual abuse recovery, and the power of self-worth. Holli has been a guest on over 100 podcasts as well as on Arizona TV speaking on issues of wellness. Prior to and during her career as a therapist, Holli taught for thirty years in public education. Holli lives in Southern California with her husband. To contact Holli Kenley for your next workshop or presentation, visit www.hollikenley.com"
