Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

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And you can now redefine who you are, and what’s possible for you to create in this lifetime that is outside of your relationship with your mother. Sandeep’s family believed in what I term the “culture of female service,” a global patriarchal belief system that views women as caregivers, not care receivers. L. Anderson is doing with daughters in regards to their mothers is some of the most important work on the planet today. Mothers and daughters frequently tell me that they feel ashamed about their relationship difficulties.

She wanted to feel free to say what she felt and needed and for her mother to speak her mind and stop the guessing games. OK I’m spectacularly unqualified to venture an opinion on mother-daughter relationships for obvious reasons, but I guess for those same reasons I’ll go ahead anyway. Miriam’s daughter did not want to feel responsible for meeting her mother’s unvoiced and unacknowledged needs.Sandeep’s mother had done that, her mother had done that, and she expected Sandeep to follow in that role.

It was enraging and triggering and sounded very familiar so I am left to think this author picked up a lot of her own abusive mother's traits. Readers of self-help books such as Mothers Who Can’t Love, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters will find a wonderful source of help and healing in Anderson’s The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal. I gave it two stars because I liked the journaling suggestions, but besides that the book was on the verge of being harmful to those who are really traumatized.Personal experience and the information in this article has informed me not only in the mother-daughter relationship but could also be a hindrance in other relationships, ie. If you liked books such as No Summit Out of Sight; Climbing High; Into Thin Air; or Mother, Nature, you’ll love Another Step Up the Mountain. The chapters are very short and she raises an issue, doesn't answer it at all, and then gives weird and annoying journal questions like describing what color and texture your anger is.