Julie Burton is an experienced writer specializing in parenting, relationships, and finding balance with an MSJ advanced degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is the former editor of Momtalk, a local parenting magazine, and has written for Minnesota Parent and Your Teen. She started her own blog, Unscripted Mom, in 2013, and her writing has been featured on AshleyDavisBush.com, AskMen.Com, Brain, Child, ChrisFreytag.com, Everyday Family, Grown and Flown, Her Stories: Tales of Friendship, Kveller, Mamapedia, Scary Mommy, The Socratic Project, The Mid, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Twin Cities Jewfolk, and Twin Cities Pioneer Press. She has also been featured on WCCO’s Jordana Green Show, and she co-led a self-care workshop at the 2014 Twin Cities Jewish Community Conference on Mental Health. Burton lives in Minnetonka, MN, with her husband of twenty-two years and her four children. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

Combining the thoughtful and expert narrative of a veteran mom of four children with the voices of hundreds of moms she surveyed, The Self-Care Solution offers insightful answers to poignant questions about how mothers take care of themselves, their relationships, and their jobs while raising their children—and how they don’t.

Here, mothers reveal their struggles with self-care, and the consequences of neglecting themselves and their relationships, and share successful strategies to combat these issues. Each chapter also includes reflective self-assessment questions for mothers to gauge where they are from a self-care standpoint, as well as lists of tried and true tools they can employ to achieve more balance, and ultimately more satisfaction, within themselves and in their relationships. Inspirational yet practical, The Self-Care Solution will dramatically impact women who are navigating the critical responsibility of motherhood while attempting to stay true to themselves.