Parenting Unpacked: Parenting Through the Loss of Self - Paperback

by Jessica Gabrielzyk (Author), Francine Marcondes (Illustrator), Raquel Serafim (Designed by)

I did not speak French, and the only word I recognized was the name of our bus stop. The bus hissed open its doors. My feet stayed planted. People stepped around us without looking, and no one was unkind because no one needed to be. It was just unnecessary.So, I walked forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling myself the exercise was the point.

This is what it looks like when the instincts that once guided you stop working, but you are still responsible for someone else. It wasn't a crisis or a breakdown-just the disorientation of a life that no longer responds the way it used to, while another human still depends on you to lead.

Parenting Unpacked follows that experience through the stories of families across multiple countries and continents. It maps the arc most parents cross without knowing it has a name, from the decision to leave what was familiar, through the work of adapting to what isn't, toward something that holds.

This is not a book about how to fix it. It is for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering, somewhere underneath it all, who they are becoming.

If you have ever felt capable everywhere except your own life, you already know what this book is about.

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