The Boston Globe: Parenting Unfiltered
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If you're not anxious, are you really living?
Digital consultant (and Lexington mom) Morra Aarons-Mele hosts “The Anxious Achiever“ leadership podcast, in which she slices into the gritty underbelly of what so many working parents face: a sense of imposter syndrome, of striving and wondering why, of nerves around finances (college, anyone?), and that endless slog toward contentment.
Her book, “The Anxious Achiever,” comes out next week from Harvard Business Review Press. While the book is primarily geared to leaders — people whose anxiety both drives and undermines them in the workplace — it’s also applicable to parents who grapple with perfectionism, control, and toxic ambition, and who worry about passing that on to their kids.
