Bethany Saltman, this week’s guest, is the author of Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment. Bethany is an author, award-winning editor, and researcher. Her work has been in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Parents, and many other publications. Bethany also works as a best-selling book coach, a communications director, and an in-demand mindfulness mentor, consulting writers and entrepreneurs at all stages of their creative process. She helps her clients envision and execute projects, from book proposals to content development and messaging to Big Ideas, and more. A longtime student of Zen, Bethany is devoted to the fine art and game-changing effects of paying attention. She lives in a small town in the Catskills with her family.

BIG IDEAS

• Being a Zen (or Buddhist) parent

• How to come to terms with who we are as a person and as a parent.

• Steps for being in the moment with our kids and returning to ourselves.

• How meditation (noticing the thought, let it go, return to your breath/body, return to your intention to be a kind and attuned parent)

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