Mother-Daughter Relationships
Breaking the Barriers: Fostering Open and Honest Communication with Your Daughter
When I embarked on the motherhood journey, nobody handed me a manual. Instead, I got three opinionated, strong-willed daughters. I quickly learned that parenting is less about having answers and more about finding out the questions. One of my most fervent quests has...
And the Cuteness turns to Something Else…
And then she becomes Nine.... Daughters grow up fast. At first they are those adorable, wrap you around your pinkie sweethearts. By four, they have a personality and the language to use it. As they round the corner on six and seven, that personality requires a...
I Don’t Know What’s Wrong – 5 Steps to Dealing with Big Emotions
This time it was the traumatic experience of misplacing a sliced up kiwi that sent my ten-year old in to a flurry of emotion. Everything was bad because of that kiwi, I had no idea that a kiwi could be so powerful – did you? I remember having those big feelings, the...
Life Balance is Bogus
I don't believe in balance. Well I believe that we need to be more careful when we talk about life balance. As a society, we perpetuate the idea that the desired state of being is one of balance. While this is may be true in a holistic, generic sense,...
No one told me it would be so hard…
The other day, I was wrapping up a workshop and one of the mother's shared her story with me. As we offered each other support in the challenges that come from raising children, the sentiments that so many of us feel whispered out of this mom's mouth, "I...
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