Audiobooks by Whitney Casares

Raising Body-Confident Kids: A Balanced Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Body Shame and Diet Culture

"Ditch diet culture and break the cycle of body shame with this simple, supportive guide to raising body-confident kids. If you're a modern mom, chances are you've struggled with body image in the past, and you don't want to pass those struggles on to your kids. But protecting your child's relationship with their body in a culture obsessed with perfection isn't easy. That's where Raising Body-Confident Kids comes in. Written by pediatrician and maternal-child health expert Dr. Whitney Casares, this practical, affirming guide helps moms teach their kids to be body-confident: to respect the bodies they have, know how to care for them, and have the skills they need to navigate the pressures of a body-obsessed world. With equal parts compassion and real talk--and recognizing that moms are often still struggling with these issues themselves--Dr. Whitney offers a shame-free, health-informed framework for body-confident parenting rooted in connection, modeling, and values. Rejecting both diet culture and toxic body positivity, Raising Body-Confident Kids offers a middle path: one that helps children appreciate what their bodies can do AND learn how to care for them. Through expert insights and real-world stories, readers will learn how to shift everyday conversations around food, movement, health, and appearance to help their kids develop positive relationships with food, movement, and body image, navigate challenges with screens, friends, and body bullies, talk about these issues within their extended communities, and more. The book includes: - Conversation guides for talking with kids about food, health, and weight - Tips for building a more body-neutral home and media environment - Strategies for managing your own body image while parenting - A "Study Guide" at the end of the book, offering a total of 30+ guided exercises, family rituals, and journal prompts - Support for navigating triggering situations like doctor's visits and big family dinners If you've been looking for ways to talk to your kids about bodies without focusing on weight or appearance, for support in healing your own body image trauma, and for tools to ensure that every conversation is supportive, safe, and grounded in evidence-based care, then this book is for you. Practical and compassionate, Raising Body Confident Kids is your actionable guide to ending the cycle of body shame and raising self-assured, healthy kids."

Whitney Casares (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Doing It All: Stop Over-Functioning and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

"Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to beating burnout and thriving as a working mom.   In Doing It All, Dr. Whitney Casares, author, pediatrician, and mother of two, shares the step-by-step plan she developed as a modern working mom to help her stop over-functioning at work and home, stop blaming herself for everything that went wrong, and start living a balanced and intentional life. Today's working moms are burned out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of motherhood, work, household management, and a million-and-one everyday tasks, chores, and responsibilities, they truly are doing it all-but getting nowhere. They think they're out of options-but they're wrong.   Dr. Whitney tried to do it all for years, until one particularly bad week brought her to her knees, and then, to a revelation: It wasn't her that was broken, it was her system. She needed a new system, a plan of action that would look squarely at all the common problems of working mom life-over-scheduling, inequitable partnerships, lack of boundaries, lack of support-, recognize the social and cultural causes behind them, and give her the tools and structure she needed to tackle the chaos, find her work-life balance, and start living a life that worked for her. In Doing It All, she shares that system with you, a system that will help you prioritize what really matters and where everything-even laundry-has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority. Doing It All features Dr. Whitney's complete step-by-step plan to achieving your Centered Life-that is, a life centered on you-, as well as over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you: - Create a vision of your life that aligns with your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. - Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary "have-tos" in your life quickly and efficiently. - Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner. - Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. - Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful-without giving away too much of yourself. - Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest. - And more! Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and mental health advocates, Doing It All meets working moms where they are, recognizes the personal and systemic challenges they face, and offers solutions that really work. It's time to stop merely "surviving" motherhood. Join Dr. Whitney and thousands of other working moms across the country and discover the tools, systems, and support you need to parent, work, and thrive in your daily life."

Whitney Casares (Author), Brittany Wilkerson (Narrator)

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