“Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media”, published today, is available at a pre-launch discount of up to $1.96 (from the $28 cover price to $26.04) via independent bookstores.
The book is the seventh by Donna Jackson Nakazawa, acclaimed author, science journalist, international speaker and longtime friend of PACEs Connection.
Jackson will join PACEs Connection for our second “Connecting Communities One Book at a Time” book study webinar to discuss the book, why she wrote, it, and why it is so vitally important. The webinar is on October 12, 3-4:30 p.m. ET. Register for the webinar here, now!
To preorder the book and support local independent bookstores, use this link. The book is also available on Amazon Kindle for just $13.
PACEs Connection’s “Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative” brings communities together around books that help us have critical conversations about positive and adverse childhood experiences, racism, inequity, and how communities can prevent and heal trauma and create resiliency.
Praise for “Girls on the Brink”
“This is a brave and important book; the challenging stories—both personal and scientific—will make you think, and, hopefully, act.”
—Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, New York Times bestselling co-author of “What Happened to You?”
“Some books translate science into understandable language; some offer advice in the form of actionable steps; and some weave stories that grab you by the heart. This one—miraculously—does all three.”—Cara Natterson, MD, bestselling author of “The Care and Keeping of You 2” and “Decoding Boys”.
“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
“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
From the book cover:
Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is “Why?”
Now we have answers. As award-winning writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in Girls on the Brink, new findings reveal that the crisis facing today’s girls is a biologically rooted phenomenon: The earlier onset of puberty mixes badly with the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny. When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence, it can alter the female stress-immune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development.
About the author:
Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and author of seven books. Her work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion; her mission is to explore the science of the mind-body connection and harness it for healing.
Nakazawa’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 magazines and newspapers including Wired, The Boston Globe, Stat, The Washington Post and Health Affairs. She has appeared on The Today Show and National Public Radio, and is a regular speaker at universities, including the Harvard Division of Science Library Series, Rutgers University, the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, the Peace & Justice Institute, Learning and the Brain, and Johns Hopkins University.
For her writing on health and science, she received the AESKU lifetime achievement award and the National Health Information Award.
Nakazawa 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 old thought patterns and internalized stories to create a new, more powerful, inner healing narrative that calms the body, brain, and nervous system.
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