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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman and I'm thrilled to welcome back Dr.

Sunia Luther who after doing decades of resilience research, which has shown that the single most

important thing that helps children do well in spite of high pressure and stress and adversity

is having strong supportive relationships with those who take care of them. And because of that,

Dr. Luther has brought the same approach in working with moms who are facing different types

of daily stress, work in demanding settings, or their whole job is working in the demanding

setting of the households. For all of those moms, she's taken the research and put it into

practice by creating nonprofit groups where moms can have and find authentic connections. Dr.

Luther's research is so pioneering in the fields of resilience and vulnerability in various

populations, including youth and poverty, children and families affected by mental illness,

teens and upper middle-class families. Her research has been focused on motherhood as of late,

very specifically. So we are talking about in this episode motherhood as a proxy for whoever the

primary caregiver is. But in many ways, there's just a very specific thing about motherhood,

and that's what she's exploring, and exploring factors that best help mothers negotiate the

challenges of motherhood, and be able to best support their children. Sunia was also my first

mentor at Columbia, so this is always so special for me. And I'm really excited to share this

episode with you, and you can find in the show notes ways of learning more about her work,

and connecting with authentic connections. If you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate

to subscribe, rate, and write a review. And as always, please DM me on at Reason Good Humans

podcast on my Instagram, and I will take those questions and put them either in my monthly Q&A

or on videos and stories on Instagram, but I will get to them, and I'm so happy that you're here.

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