Unfollowing Mum
  • Published: 18 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781785045172
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $36.99

Unfollowing Mum

Break unhealthy patterns and be the parent you wish you’d had

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Tr. Paperback
18 Feb 2025
EBook
7 Nov 2024
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Empowerment coach Harriet Shearsmith’s life-affirming manual on how to approach parenting when you weren’t parented healthily yourself.

'LIFE-CHANGING AND NECESSARY' - Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author

'A MUST-READ' – Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You

Unfollowing Mum is a supportive handbook for anyone seeking to understand how the past informs their current parenting struggles, and positively move beyond them. Harriet is an empowerment coach, estranged from her own parent. She challenges narratives of unconditional acceptance and healing in parental relationships that still have a negative impact on you, and shows you how to create a new template for parenting your own children without having had healthy modelling.

The book will show you how to let go of family dysfunction and discover how to parent your children with a clean slate. You will learn how to heal your inner child, understand how to identify toxic traits you’ve experienced, and to find different pathways to break free from these wounds through self-compassion and honest connection with others.

With practical exercises throughout, including Cycle-Breaking journaling prompts, this book will offer advice for how to approach parenting when you are healing the way you have been parented. Learn how to forgive your own perceived parenting imperfections, and compassionately reparent your inner child in the present.
  • Published: 18 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781785045172
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $36.99
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Praise for Unfollowing Mum

Harriet has written so brilliantly and deeply about what it’s like to face the painful reality of dysfunctional parent relationships. The way she writes from personal experience will empower and liberate so many others, and her practical tools will help to make the seemingly impossible task of estrangement from a parent become so much more emotionally manageable. I love the way she motivates us to take these difficult steps not to hurt the ones who went before, but to respect and cherish the ones who are to follow and I will be recommending this book far and wide.

Emma Reed Turrell, Psychotherapist and bestselling author of What Am I Missing?

Life-changing and necessary. Feel your shoulders drop in relief. Permission giving and powerful, this book is going to be the turning point so many need.

Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author of The Uncomfortable Truth

A must-read if you’re raising children while healing how you were parented yourself

Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You
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