I would like to share a new addition to our 2025 Christmas Gift Guide: Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs by Leslie Forde (Author). I received a copy of in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the products, you purchase.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been struggling with a mom and my feelings and overrun with stress, I look in the mirror and don’t even feel like myself. From the way I feel to the way I love I hate myself. I don’t feel like I can do anything right,
More and more I’ve been hurting which keeps me from doing things. I love the LORD and no, he doesn’t make mistakes or trash, but I feel like both. Finally last night I broke down. I sat down at my desk to write a letter letting David and Charlie know how I was feeling.
Before I got the letter started, I found Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs I picked the book up to browse through until I could get my thoughts in place. I love how the Author helps us reclaim our energy and balance.
The book was created with working moms in mind and what moms should remember is even if they don’t work outside the house they still work, and self-care is important in every stage of a mom’s life. Which more times than not I forget.
Not, that it matters but the Author is a black woman who struggles just like I do. I believe we could be friends. A mom of a toddler daughter and active kindergartener son who travels and like all moms doesn’t sleep much even though I didn’t travel and only had one child at a time I understand about not sleeping.
No, parent should ever lose a child but like me the Author had lost her stepson, so I felt like she understood me. I love how the Author taught me what “motherhood penalty” is and just one of many teaching moments in the book.
There is illustrations or graphs to help us understand what we’re reading. At the end of the book is tools we can use in our daily lives. I can’t wait to share Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs with all my girlfriends. I believe this book should be on every best seller-list and in every book club around.
About: Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs
Reclaim your energy and restore balance with help from an expert and mother who’s been in your shoes
Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs by Leslie Forde is a transformative guide that addresses the overwhelming demands faced by working moms. By reshaping the narrative around energy management rather than time management (and how to access new sources of fuel), Forde offers a refreshing perspective on achieving a more aligned life.
This book isn’t about balancing work and home in the conventional sense; it’s about investing in self-care to enhance all facets of life, allowing more opportunities for personal growth, enjoyment, and efficacy.
In the book, Forde presents a framework for prioritizing physical, emotional, and intellectual self-care. Through personal experiences and extensive research, she identifies the challenges unique to working moms, including those from other marginalized communities. This book is a call to action to stop deprioritizing yourself and to start using your energy differently to live a healthier and more fulfilling life.
Inside the book:
- Learn to prioritize your needs without losing personal and professional momentum
- Transform your approach to caregiving and career with practical strategies
- Understand the importance of self-care in sustaining your social and emotional well-being
Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs is the perfect resource for mothers who combine hands-on, loving care for their children with growth in a demanding career. Employers committed to supporting working parents will also find valuable insights into retaining this vital segment of their workforce. By embracing Forde’s strategies, moms can reclaim their energy and live more fulfilled, integrated lives.
Meet the Author: Leslie Forde
Leslie Forde is a mom, wife, sister, daughter, friend, runner, dancer, researcher and food fanatic. She’s the CEO and Founder of Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs® and Author of Repair with Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Health for moms is her ministry. So, she provides evidence-based tools and research for moms to reclaim time from the never-done list for wellness. Her business helps employers improve policies, benefits and work/life support for caregivers.
Leslie has used research to inform growth and innovation strategy for 20+ years and for over a decade, she’s focused on the childcare, eldercare, mental health, and education sectors.
She’s a frequent speaker and consultant to leading organizations on how to retain and support parents and caregivers.
Her writing about wellbeing and the future of work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, Parents Magazine, TLNT, and her website, Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs among other publications. She’s been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, National Geographic, Fast Company, US News & World Report, SHRM, and many other outlets.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
