Find helpful resources for supporting parents’ mental health, including books, blog posts, peer support groups, podcasts, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Books
Blog Posts
- How to Protect Your Mental Health While Parenting a Neurodivergent Child?
- Top 8 Mental Health Tips for Solo Parenting Days
- The Mental Load of Motherhood: What It Is & How to Lighten It?
- How to Ask for Help Without Guilt as a Parent?
- How to Navigate Identity Loss in Motherhood?
- How to Cope with Depleted Mother Syndrome?
- “Parental Guilt”: How to Navigate Guilt as a Parent or Caregiver?
- Parenting Stress: How to Prepare for a Smooth Back-to-School Transition?
- The Silent Panic of a Perfect Pregnancy: Coping With Hidden Fears
Peer Support & Support Groups for Parents
- Parents Helping Parents — Coffee & Community
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A free virtual group open to mothers and fathers from different backgrounds. Discussions include parenting stress, co-parenting, discipline, child development, family pressures, and simply having somewhere to talk honestly about how difficult parenting can be. - Postpartum Support International — Parent Support Groups
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Free virtual groups for parents experiencing stress, adjustment difficulties, overwhelm, postpartum depression, anxiety, or other emotional struggles during pregnancy and early parenthood. Groups are led by trained peer facilitators. - NAMI Family Support Group
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Free peer-led groups for adults supporting a family member with a mental-health condition. It can be especially helpful for parents caring for a child or teenager with serious emotional or behavioral difficulties while also trying to protect their own mental health.
Parents’ Mental Health Podcasts
- Raising Good Humans — Dr. Aliza Pressman
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A popular weekly podcast hosted by developmental psychologist Dr. Aliza Pressman. It covers parental stress, perfectionism, guilt, difficult behavior, relationships, emotional reactions, family pressure, and practical ways to make parenting feel less overwhelming. - Your Parenting Mojo
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A research-focused parenting podcast that looks closely at the psychological pressures placed on modern parents. Topics include parental burnout, perfectionism, relationships, stress, child behavior, and reducing unnecessary pressure on both parents and children.
- You’re Not Failing—You’re Fried: Understanding Parental Burnout — Raising Me
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Psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Barkin explains how parental burnout can appear as constant exhaustion, resentment, irritability, numbness, and brain fog. The episode focuses on reducing mental load, asking for meaningful support, and making concrete changes when parenting demands have become unsustainable. - Parenting on Empty — Good Inside With Dr. Becky
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Dr. Becky focuses on parents who feel as though they are running on nothing. She discusses parental fatigue, burnout, the endless mental checklist of parenting, and realistic ways to make daily life less draining. - Dr. Aliza Pressman: Why Parent Mental Health Is Essential for Our Kids — House Calls With Dr. Vivek Murthy
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Developmental psychologist Dr. Aliza Pressman discusses perfectionism, exhaustion, parenting pressure, emotional health, and why parents’ mental health deserves attention in its own right. The conversation also challenges the expectation that good parents should handle everything perfectly.
TED & TEDx Talks About Parents’ Mental Health
- How to Make Parenting Less Lonely — Stacey McLachlan
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A 2026 TEDx talk about the social isolation that can develop after becoming a parent. McLachlan discusses why friendships and adult connection matter and how parents can actively protect themselves from becoming increasingly isolated. - Why Moms Are Miserable — Sheryl Ziegler
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Psychologist Dr. Sheryl Ziegler discusses burnout, loneliness, depression, friendship, and the pressure placed on modern mothers. With more than a million plays, it remains one of the more popular talks specifically addressing mothers’ emotional well-being. - How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts — Jacqueline Kerr
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Focuses directly on parental, caregiver, and emotional burnout. Kerr explains why the answer cannot simply be telling exhausted parents to add more “self-care” tasks and instead looks at reducing demands and changing the conditions that create burnout. - The Real Reason Modern Parenting Is So Hard — Nichola Raihani
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Explores why parenting can feel unusually difficult and isolating despite modern conveniences. The talk questions the expectation that one or two adults should carry almost all responsibility for raising children without enough community support. - The Importance of New Fathers’ Mental Health — Mark Williams
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Mark Williams discusses his own experience of panic, depression, isolation, and suicidal thoughts after becoming a father. The talk highlights why fathers’ mental health can be overlooked when most attention understandably goes toward the mother and baby. - A New Way to Think About the Transition to Motherhood — Alexandra Sacks
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Reproductive psychiatrist Dr. Alexandra Sacks explains “matrescence,” the major psychological and identity transition involved in becoming a mother. The talk helps explain why mixed emotions, grief for your old identity, frustration, and uncertainty can exist alongside love for your child. - Parenting Through Postpartum Depression — Camille Mehta
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A personal account of postpartum depression and its impact on parenting, relationships, and daily functioning. It also emphasizes recognizing symptoms and getting appropriate help instead of hiding difficulties because parenthood is supposed to be a happy time. - Build a Postpartum Village for Yourself, Not Just Your Child — Amy Moor
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Focuses on the importance of building practical and emotional support around the parent, not only around the baby. It addresses the isolation that can develop in early parenthood and why parents need people who support their mental health as well as their parenting.
