About this Event
Adolescent girls today tend to be more prone to depression and self-harm than ever before. It is this disturbing trend that led award-winning author Donna Jackson Nakazawa to research the science behind this growing crisis, interview girls about their adolescent experiences, investigate supportive solutions, and write about it in her new book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media.
Join the Crunchy Allergist on October 6 as Dr. Kara Wada interviews Donna to explain the research behind the book and discuss new findings that reveal that the crisis facing today’s adolescent girls is both a psychosocial and a biologically rooted phenomenon.
Through their conversation, Donna will reveal some effective strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls, which are detailed in the book. She will host a question-and-answer session after the talk.
What You Will Get:
- A hard copy of the book: Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media, published by Random House/Harmony. Shipped to you through our logistics.
- A free gift: a Book Club Kit, which includes a Q&A with Donna, to use for their own book club!
The book, designed to be a guide for parents, families, and all, to help secure a healthy emotional inner life for our young girls,was published on September 13, 2022.
All participants who register by September 20 will receive their books in time for the event.
Event takes place October 6th so make sure to register ahead to secure your copy before the event.
Registrations after September 20 may receive books after the event.
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About the Speakers
Donna Jackson-Nakazawa
An award-winning science journalist, author of seven books, and an internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.
Her upcoming book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media (Random House/Harmony 9/13) is available for pre-order wherever books are sold.
Donna’s other books include The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine, named one of the best books of 2020 by Wired magazine, Childhood Disrupted, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award, and The Last Best Cure.
Her writing has appeared in Wired, The Boston Globe, Stat, The Washington Post and Health Affairs.
She has appeared on The Today Show and NPR and is a regular speaker at universities, including the Harvard Division of Science Library Series, Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins, Learning and the Brain, and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Donna is also the creator and founder of the narrative writing-to-heal program, Your Healing Narrative, which uses a process called Neural Re-Narrating™ to help participants recognize and override their brain’s internalized stories, and create a new, powerful healing narrative that calms body, brain, and nervous system.
Kara Wada, MD
Kara Wada, MD is a board-certified adult and pediatric allergy/immunology and lifestyle medicine physician, autoimmune patient, life coach, and medical educator.
Dr. Wada sees her work as a balance builder.
She focuses on the unique challenges pertaining to those struggling with misbehaving immune systems including autoimmune, allergic, and immune deficiency-related conditions.
She works tirelessly with her patients and coaching clients using her naturally-minded and scientifically-grounded approach to health and healing.
She speaks on topics related to prevention and treatment of allergies, allergies, and immune system diseases, building meaningful physician-patient relationships, and the experience of being a physician and chronic illness patient.
About the Book
From award-winning journalist and author of CHILDHOOD DISRUPTED and THE ANGEL AND THE ASSASSIN; a new and important work, exploring the causes of the mental health epidemic facing girls and young women today –and revelatory new strategies to help girls thrive.
Our girls are not okay.
At last, we have a roadmap to help them.
1 in 4 adolescent girls now reports symptoms of major depression. Rates of anxiety are twice as high in girls as they are in boys and young men. Rates of suicide attempts rose 51 percent among girls in the past year alone, compared to 4 percent in boys.
But until recently we haven’t had the science to explain why this is happening, and why now.
The latest findings from the annals of neuroscience offer us new answers. The truth is that unrelenting, toxic stress harms girls’ brains and biology in unique and often catastrophic ways. And the stressors at play in modern life are pushing girls to the very brink.
In this brilliantly written book, Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly braids together the latest research with the paths of three teenage girls to illuminate the modern circumstances that are preventing adolescent girls from thriving.
Then she answers the question that all parents, teachers and others who know and love a teenaged girl in their lives want to know: What can we do to help them?
Nakazawa lays out 15 science-backed “antidote” strategies, including:
- How to nurture the parent-child connection through the rollercoaster of adolescence (and how to navigate your own difficult feelings, so they don’t sabotage your connection)
- The key ingredients to building a sense of safety and security for your teenage girl at home and in the family tribe
- The foundations of long-term resilience and wellbeing and how to foster these in our girls so they’re ready to face the world
This book provides a new playbook for how we — parents, families, and the human tribe – can ensure a healthy emotional inner life for all of our girls.
An enthralling read, GIRLS ON THE BRINK weaves together girls’ stories with the cutting-edge biology of girlhood. It is the definitive guide for helping teenage girls to flourish in our troubled times.
Book Reviews
“A perceptive, informative examination of the problems young American girls face and how to change them . . . All of the author’s advice is sound, and her insights into how to start the process of change make this an important book for parents of girls.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The smart analysis and wealth of neuroscientific and psychological research adds nuance to public discourse around girls’ mental health. . . . Timely and incisive, this issues an acute warning that the kids are not alright.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The signs are everywhere: girls are struggling, their mental well-being in decline. Enter Donna Jackson Nakazawa. She has dug deep, connected the dots and, in Girls on the Brink, offers powerful, hopeful strategies to help parents raise daughters who are resilient, self-aware and thriving.”
—Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls and Sex
“Girls on the Brink is a must-read for parents, teachers and healthcare professionals.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa conscientiously explores the evolving science behind how and why our girls are suffering digging into the roles of biology, psychology, and social structures.
What is more important though is rather than allowing us to sit paralyzed in the overwhelming nature of the problem, she then empowers readers to use any combination of the 15 different strategies and scripts to forge stronger more supportive relationships with our daughters.
As a mom of 2 young girls and a physician, I have no doubt that I will be returning back to this book time and time again in the coming years.”
—Kara Wada, MD ( The Crunchy Allergist )
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- A hard copy of the book: Girls on the Brink
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Downloadable Bookclub Kit
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Private Small Group Chat with Donna & Kara
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Downloadable Bookclub Kit
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Private Small Group Chat with Donna & Kara
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