Leslie Forde. 2025. Repair With Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom's Hierarchy of Needs. Jossey-Bass

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About the book:
 
The maternal health crisis extends well beyond the baby shower or our children’s first birthdays. Most moms take a disproportionate, long-term hit to their health and careers while trying to honor their commitments.

This isn’t a work/life balance, time management or productivity problem. The lack of control over our time, at home or in the workplace comes from social conditioning, bias, and systems limitations that undermine our mental, physical, and financial health.

Repair With Self-Care: Your Guide to the Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs (Wiley, 2025) gives motivated moms more than just a set of high-level ideals.  It is a realistic onramp to the health span movement.  Whether it’s to improve behavioral health, career or financial outcomes, the answer is the same–energy is the fuel that leads to creative solutions. For overworked and under-supported moms, energy means finding proven interventions in unlikely places to reduce stressors, workload and prioritize wellbeing.

About the author:
WFRN member Leslie Forde is a consultant, researcher and speaker. She helps employers bridge the gap between their policies, practices and benefits for parents and caregivers in organizations like HubSpot, Dana-Farber, The Barr Foundation and Merck. 

 
Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNN, and Fast Company, among other publications. Prior to becoming a full-time entrepreneur, she spent more than a decade working in: children’s educational publishing, childcare, eldercare and children’s mental health in leadership roles. She has also run the longest-trending research study on parenting needs through the pandemic and now post-pandemic with over 3,800 participants, 97% of whom are women.