The Intentional Parent Building Self-Trust for You, Your Child, and the World

Trust yourself as a parent and become more intentional in your caregiving choices with practical, easy advice, tips, and exercises from wellness expert Mallika Chopra and family therapist Kanika P. Chopra. 

Parenting offers incredible gifts: watching, guiding, and celebrating a child as they navigate their unique journey as a human being. But parenting can also be challenging, emotionally daunting, and stressful, and when a parent feels overwhelmed, they can lose that sense of trust in themselves and in their ability to support, nurture, and help their children manage the sometimes rocky path toward adulthood. This is especially true for parents of children ages 0-12.

In this book, wellness expert Mallika Chopra and family therapist Kanika P. Chopra empower you to trust yourself again so you can better trust your ability to parent. They will guide you to:

• Prioritize self-care to be better at child-care
• Examine the science behind embodied parenting
• Manage stress through mindful and meditative exercises
• Set intentions for how you want to parent
• Learn somatic awareness to parent more fully
• Engage your community for support

Through interviews with real parents who have learned how to manage their trauma and stress to better serve their children, and by focusing on a multicultural approach to parenting by explaining how parents thrive in a variety of cultures and communities, Mallika Chopra and Kanika P. Chopra give parents and caregivers easy, practical tools to deal with the many twists and turns parenting demands. 

Mallika Chopra is the CEO of Chopra Global and an author of multiple books for children and adults. She is currently a mindfulness consultant on Apple TV+’s Stillwater series. She speaks at various conferences and venues, including TedXSan Diego, TedXBerkeley, Business Innovation Factory, and more. She travels internationally for workshops on meditation and balance and speaks at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Her writing has been featured in many publications, including Women’s Health, Glamour, Oprah.com, Mind Body Green, the LA Times, and Huffington Post. She has a BA from Brown, an MBA from Kellogg Business School, and an MA in Psychology and Education with a mind body spirit concentration from Teachers College at Columbia University and is based in Southern California.
 
Kanika Priya Chopra is a New York City-based social worker and therapist who has been working with and supporting individuals, children, couples, and families for 20 years. She received her MsED from Bank Street College in Early Childhood Education and her master’s degree in clinical social work from Columbia. She works for the Association to Benefit Children, a nonprofit providing home-based therapy to children and families.