Reparenting Yourself While Parenting Your Kids
Announcing my second book, coming Summer 2027
I am excited to announce that I have signed a book contract for my second book, Reparenting Yourself While Parenting Your Kids, coming Summer 2027 from Brazos Press.
Here is the description:
The key to raising healthy, secure kids is to be a healthy, connected parent.
Today’s millennial and Gen Z parents are desperate to learn a better way to raise our kids than the fear-based, authoritarian parenting style many of us were raised with. We turn to parenting experts, books, and philosophies like gentle parenting to guide us in more research-based and emotionally healthy parenting approaches. There is no shortage of such books, and most begin with this advice: first do your own work. But few discuss how to do that, instead devoting the rest of the book to the how-tos of parenting young kids.
Moreover, many Christians are undergoing massive changes in what we believe. Especially for those of us with religious upbringings who may be rethinking our faith, it can be confusing to figure out what to teach our kids. As a generation, we are deconstructing our faith, and along with that comes deconstructing our approach to parenting. We want evidenced-based, developmentally-sound guidance on how to parent, but we’re also confused about how our faith integrates with that. What do we teach our kids about emotions when all we were told was “your heart is wicked and deceitful”? How do we discipline when the research says spanking is harmful, yet all we were taught was “spare the rod, spoil the child”? How do we develop a secure attachment with our kids when our parents’ goal was to “break our will”?
Reparenting Yourself While Parenting Your Kids (official title TBD) meets readers at this intersection: parenting children in a different way while breaking cycles and healing the wounds from your own upbringing. Written by Dr. Camden Morgante, a psychologist, Christian, and millennial parent of young kids, this book integrates best parenting practices from research, biblical support for more emotionally healthy ways to discipline, and emotion regulation techniques and skills to apply to yourself and your kids.
Chock-full of evidence-based exercises and therapeutic tools, Reparenting Yourself While Parenting Your Kids provides the guidance and support that Christian parents need to experience healing for themselves and to be confident in a different parenting approach.
See the Publishers Weekly announcement here.
I got the idea for this book while writing my first one. In my first book, Recovering from Purity Culture, I finished with a chapter on “Parenting After Purity Culture” and a reparenting exercise to give yourself the sexual education you wish you had had as a child. Reparenting Yourself picks up where the first book left off—except instead of reparenting the topic of sexuality, we will reparent our attachment, emotions, and discipline approach.
The same Middle Path faith perspective you’ve come to know from here at Walking the Middle Path and in my first book will be present in the second one: deeply committed to Jesus and to holding onto our faith and values, but not afraid to challenge the toxic beliefs we’ve been taught by the church, pastors, Christian books, and our parents.
Readers always tell me how much they love the tools and exercises in my first book. And the second will include both parenting and reparenting exercises drawn from trauma-informed, evidenced-based practices like attachment-focused therapies, internal family systems, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. There will also be reflection and journaling prompts, scripts, mantras, and inner child work.
This is the work I do as a therapist: to equip and empower my clients to develop the insight and skills they didn’t get as children so they can have healthier emotions and relationships as adults. More than that, this is my daily work as a parent: reevaluating how I was raised and trying to establish different, healthier patterns in my own home.
I know the best gift I can give my children is to be the healthiest person and parent I can be. And I want that for you, too. Together, we can heal our emotions, attachment, and even faith from the wounds of our childhoods.
We can reparent ourselves while parenting our kids.
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As a "late-in-life" parent, who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I am excited to hear about this book. Been looking for something like this for awhile now.
Congrats, my friend!!