If you've landed here... you know I've created an entire website devoted to calling out difficult mothers and helping their daughters. Yikes! I've taken the hardest job on the planet (motherhood) and shone the spotlight on the cracks. How dare I be so hard on...
The heartbreak and gift of letting your daughter go Dear Teenaged Daughter, (written 10 years ago) You have that far away look in your eyes now. Home isn’t the center of your universe. I knew it would be this way. I just didn’t know how...
You know the feeling. You are just itching to give advice, but you can sense it isn’t the best thing to do. ( how to listen to your daughter instead of giving advice and why you should) You've noticed: -Your advice always seems to fall on deaf ears. -You can talk...
Postpartum Depression- When you become a mother. For, you, the daughter of the Narcissistic or Difficult mother, new motherhood can be terrifying. Just when everyone expects you to be blissing out, you can feel like a failure and nobody wants to talk about why. You...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0-4Wt-M1E Are you raising a daughter even though you have had a difficult childhood? When you haven't had good enough mothering yourself, doing the right thing by your own children is an even harder task than usual. I think you are...
" I don't want to mess up my daughter the way my mom messed me up." Yep, EVERY mother on my psychotherapy couch ( especially the "good" daughter) who has a difficult mother and is now raising a daughter has the worry she will make the same mistakes her mother...
Messages mothers give to their daughters about their bodies reverberate throughout their daughters' lives and have major consequences for their safety now and later. By that, I mean mothers signal to their daughters what is expected of them through everyday...
When #MeToo & Mom comes home. What happens when a mother does not protect her daughter from sexual abuse? What about when she doesn't believe her daughter when she tells her she has been sexually abused? Her daughter feels a deep level of betrayal she may not even...
Do you want to give your daughter the self-esteem you never got from your own mother? Counseling women in psychotherapy for over 30 years, I hear this one wish mothers have above all others... " I just want my daughter to feel good about herself." What if I told you...