UNDER PRESSURE – Confronting Stress and Anxiety in Girls

Lisa Damour will share critical steps that adults can take to shield daughters from the pressures to which our culture subjects girls.

She brings refreshing clarity and research-based practical fixes to the complicated set of stressors that girls experience—at school, online, with peers, and at home—and models how to be an ally instead of an adversary. She will demonstrate that it’s possible to normalize pressure and use it to build strength and confidence. Damour’s common-sense suggestions will provide concrete solutions in helping our daughters overcome their high levels of stress and anxiety.

Lisa Damour is a psychologist, New York Times columnist and CBS News contributor. She is also the author of two New York Times best-selling books, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls and Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood. Damour graduated from Yale University and received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. She and her husband are the proud parents of two daughters.

Please Note: Common Ground and The Nueva School will be hosting a HOLIDAY TOY DRIVE at this event! If you are able, please bring a new unwrapped toy to donate.