Book Recommendation: Good Inside

If you're parenting without a healthy roadmap, Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy can help.

This month at Calling Home, we’ve been discussing parenting after childhood trauma. Dr. Becky Kennedy offers a way to parent with strength and compassion, even when you didn’t grow up with those things yourself.

For those of you parenting after childhood trauma, it can feel like you’re trying to give your kids what you never got while still healing the parts of ourselves that were hurt. Good Inside doesn’t just give strategies; it offers permission to mess up and a roadmap to achieve repair. This book will help you set boundaries and believe that you are a good parent.

Dr. Becky’s approach centers connection without sacrificing structure. It’s trauma-informed without being overly clinical and validating without being permissive. If you’re breaking cycles and trying to raise kids who feel safe (while learning to do that for yourself), this book is the perfect roadmap.