Don't miss this important conversation with Dr. Shefali and Edda Collins Coleman, discussing Dr. Shefali's two new books Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons.

Dr. Shefali brings Western psychology and Eastern wisdom into lived practice for parents. In her new books Dr. Shefali draws on real-life clinical cases, interviews with children and parents, and deeply practical, prescriptive guidance to offer parents a radical reorientation of how we understand raising children today.

Today, boys are standing at a critical crossroads unlike any generation before. They are bombarded with impossible and contradictory mandates: Be tough but never vulnerable; be sensitive but never weak; be strong but never domineering. Caught between these warring expectations—and shaped by a digital world that amplifies comparison, disconnection, and performative identity—boys are now experiencing an unprecedented crisis of masculinity, marked by alarming rates of suicide, aggression, isolation, and apathy.

For girls, something unprecedented is unfolding in their inner lives. On the surface, they are excelling and achieving in ways that would seem unimaginable to previous generations. Yet beneath this success lies a far more urgent and unsettling truth: Girls are unraveling at alarming rates. Anxiety, perfectionism, and self-harm are surging, exposing a devastating paradox between the confident, high-achieving facade the world applauds and the fragile, unmoored self that struggles silently within.

Dr. Shefali is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Clinical Psychologist, and founder of the revolutionary Conscious Parenting. Trained at Columbia University, Dr. Shefali has spent decades guiding parents beyond patterns of fear and control toward presence and authenticity.

Edda Collins Coleman is Vice President of Communications at Common Sense Media where she serves on the executive leadership team and leads the organization's global communications strategy on ethical AI, tech policy, and children's safety. A mother of three and immediate past president of the Orinda School District, Edda brings both personal and professional conviction to her advocacy for kids.

This program is in partnership with Common Sense Media

Books are available starting September 15, 2026 at Orinda Books, or at the event on October 6.

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