Unfollowing Mum

Break unhealthy patterns and be the parent you wish you’d had

Harriet Shearsmith

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Vermilion
18 February 2025

Advice on parenting

Empowerment coach Harriet Shearsmith's life-affirming manual on how to approach parenting when you weren't parented healthily yourself.

'LIFE-CHANGING AND NECESSARY' - Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author

'A MUST-READ' - Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You

Unfollowing Mum is a supportive handbook for anyone seeking to understand how the past informs their current parenting struggles, and positively move beyond them. Harriet is an empowerment coach, estranged from her own parent. She challenges narratives of unconditional acceptance and healing in parental relationships that still have a negative impact on you, and shows you how to create a new template for parenting your own children without having had healthy modelling.

The book will show you how to let go of family dysfunction and discover how to parent your children with a clean slate. You will learn how to heal your inner child, understand how to identify toxic traits you've experienced, and to find different pathways to break free from these wounds through self-compassion and honest connection with others.

With practical exercises throughout, including Cycle-Breaking journaling prompts, this book will offer advice for how to approach parenting when you are healing the way you have been parented. Learn how to forgive your own perceived parenting imperfections, and compassionately reparent your inner child in the present.

By: Harriet Shearsmith
Imprint: Vermilion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 309g
ISBN: 9781785045172
ISBN 10: 1785045172
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harriet Shearsmith knows first hand how challenging it can be to navigate estrangement, toxic family and dysfunctional dynamics in a digital age, where setting boundaries and protecting your peace is harder than ever. She is the host of the Unfollowing Mum podcast and on instagram @unfollowing_mum, offering support for for cycle breakers, from someone who has lived the experience. She has an engaged community of 121k followers on instagram @harrietshearsmith. Based in Yorkshire in the UK, Harriet is a breath of fresh air in the parenting world, showing how you can thrive in motherhood beyond your own parental estrangement.

Reviews for Unfollowing Mum: Break unhealthy patterns and be the parent you wish you’d had

Life-changing and necessary. Feel your shoulders drop in relief. Permission giving and powerful, this book is going to be the turning point so many need. * Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author of The Uncomfortable Truth * A must-read if you’re raising children while healing how you were parented yourself * Josh Connolly, author of It's Them, Not You * Harriet has written so brilliantly and deeply about what it’s like to face the painful reality of dysfunctional parent relationships. The way she writes from personal experience will empower and liberate so many others, and her practical tools will help to make the seemingly impossible task of estrangement from a parent become so much more emotionally manageable. I love the way she motivates us to take these difficult steps not to hurt the ones who went before, but to respect and cherish the ones who are to follow and I will be recommending this book far and wide. * Emma Reed Turrell, Psychotherapist and bestselling author of What Am I Missing? *