FROM HIGH HEELS TO BUNNY SLIPPERS: SURVIVING THE TRANSITION FROM CAREER TO HOME

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Summary

Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional woman to stay home with her young children is the right one. In From High Heels to Bunny Slippers, she supports their decision to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potential negative effects on young children, as well as her own firsthand experience as a co-founder of the NASA child development centers. Unlike previous books aimed at this growing readership, Conners recognizes and addresses mothers' adjustment problems that, like any major life event, arise from the decision to quit your job and stay home. She offers tools and strategies that gently lead the professional woman from the challenge of her work world into the new challenges of parenting full-time. She sympathizes, as a stay-at-home mother herself, with the immediate frustrations of loss of personal identity, financial difficulties, depression, and marital discord. As a mental health professional, she offers her proven techniques for forming a strong new identity as a parent when you leave your career, for addressing financial woes through part-time work and money-saving strategies, for overcoming social isolation, depression, anger, and stress, and for finding personal fulfillment during this special time with your young children.

Reviews

Dr. Joyce E. Pobanz, Clinical Psychologist

"Finally, a book for those making the career-to-home transition that recognizes the very real psychological and life-altering changes that can occur during this time. Christine has experienced this reality with great insight and offers her readers excellent self-help tools, a wonderful way of looking at life, and many good laughs."

Seth McEvoy, www.forewordmagazine.com, 2006

"Sincere, funny, informational, readers will find From High Heels to Bunny Slippers to be a delightfully written account of the psychological adjustments facing mothers who stay home."

Deborah Glenn, former college professor

"Completely sincere, wonderfully researched, this is the real deal! Written
from the heart and experience of a former career maven, now at home with her four busy children, this is a must read! This book celebrates and gives voice to the huge population of moms who have shifted away from office work to homemaking work, and delves into the many changes they experience given the nature of this huge and amazing life shifting decision. Included are "need-to-know "sections and informative self-help guides to help women transition through such issues as dealing with parenting, stress, and marriage changes."

The Library Journal, May 1, 2006

"Psychotherapist and mother Conners writes from the trenches as she addresses women's problems leaving the workforce to raise children at home. An easy transition it is not, but one well worth the sacrifice. Tools and strategies for combating social isolation, depression, financial difficulties, and marital discord that often accompany this lifestyle choice are furnished. Tactics include changing one's self talk, maintaining perspective, and tuning out the antifamily messages in the media. Conners serves as a mentor to all full-time mothers, and her affirmation of the role will invigorate myriad women. A welcome book that speaks a rarely heard message for all public libraries."

Chosen as 'Book of the Week' by the Dr. Laura Show, June 12, 2006