Greater Good Parenting Talks: Parents Have Feelings, Too

Join UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center in an inspiring conversation with Hilary Jacobs Hendel and Juli Fraga.


  • Venue: Zoom
  • Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM PT/ 1:30 PM ET
  • Price: Free-Space Limited

Register here to reserve your spot. 

Parenting is an emotional marathon, yet most of us were never given a roadmap for our own feelings. Join UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center on February 11 for a free, live conversation with psychotherapists and co-authors Hilary Jacobs Hendel and Juli Fraga, hosted by Maryam Abdullah, developmental psychologist and Parenting Program Director of the Greater Good Science Center.

Based on their book, Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive, Hilary and Juli will share research-backed tools to help you move through guilt and overwhelm toward calm and connection.

The session will cover:

-Understanding your core and inhibitory emotions, including anger, fear, guilt, shame, and joy

-How attachment styles shape parenting approaches

-Practical tools and exercises to navigate emotions toward calm, connection, curiosity, and compassion

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, or professional supporting families, this conversation will provide guidance, inspiration, and practical strategies to foster emotional well-being in your home.

  • Hilary Jacobs Hendel

    Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW, is the author of the award-winning book, It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, Connect to Your Authentic Self (Random House & Penguin UK), and Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You and Your Family Can Thrive. Drawing on her work as an AEDP therapist, she helps people connect with their emotions, build resilience, and live more authentically. Hilary holds a BA in biochemistry from Wesleyan University and an MSW from Fordham University, and she is a certified psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, and other major media outlets, and her blog, The Change Triangle, is read worldwide. She is also the co-developer of the Emotions Education 101 Curriculum and Turnkey Program.

  • Juli Fraga

    Dr. Juli Fraga helps individuals who are struggling with postpartum depression and anxiety, maternal & childhood trauma, infertility, and loss/grief. In her work, she helps you turn insight into action, which alters the way you interact with yourself, your family, and the world around you. Dr. Fraga has been practicing as a psychologist for nearly twenty years and completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked at the University Counseling Center.

  • Maryam Abdullah

    Maryam Abdullah, Ph.D., is the Parenting Program Director of the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a developmental psychologist with expertise in parent-child relationships and children’s social and emotional development. At the GGSC, Maryam’s role is to develop resources for professionals and organizations providing parenting education to foster parents' well-being and to help parents nurture compassion and resilience in their children. She also shares the latest developmental science findings on Greater Good, the GGSC's online magazine, which offers science-based insights for a meaningful life. Maryam has also been invited to share research findings on parenting and children's social and emotional development with The Washington Post, BBC, CNN, NPR, and more. Prior to joining GGSC, she was an Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Irvine Child Development School in the Department of Pediatrics, a school-based behavioral health program where she supported parents and children, and conducted intervention and evaluation research.