Daughters
Every woman is a daughter and every daughter knows the powerful and enigmatic facets of her relationship with her mother. It is unlike any relationship she will ever have. It doesn't matter if daughters were raised by their mothers or not. Not being raised by their mothers is just as powerful for daughters as having been.
I wrote Echoes from the Womb, a Book for Daughters www.createspace.com/3546083 in order to help me understand myself better and what I had gone through with my mother. I wrote for a decade before I was able to assimilate the many kinds of experiences I had as a daughter. At first I had tried to understand my mother and her mother before her. Although that was interesting it wasn't very helpful in changing my pain into wisdom or a healing experience.
In order to do that I had to write about me, what was it like to be my mother's daughter, and what was it going to take to step into my own life without her and heal.
As a psychotherapist, I counseled too many women crying in my office about their relationships with their mothers. It was heartbreaking. I added some of these stories into the book.
I didn't want my book to be something women read and then slipped back on the shelf. I wanted it to be a book women used to guide them through their own experiences. In order to create that kind of book I thought it best to include writing tasks that would lead daughters into the depths of how their identities as women were formed and what the relationship with their mothers meant for them.
This book has dulled the pain I carried for most of my life in relationship to being my mother's daughter. It brought new revelations about who I am and who she was as a woman in her own skin. It showed me that my mother did the best she could and that I, too, did the best I could as her daughter. It showed me that my healing had nothing to do with her, where we were the same, and where we separated into our own identities.
I hope every teenage girl learns this point of difference. I hope every daughter knows where her own glory stands.
I wrote Echoes from the Womb, a Book for Daughters www.createspace.com/3546083 in order to help me understand myself better and what I had gone through with my mother. I wrote for a decade before I was able to assimilate the many kinds of experiences I had as a daughter. At first I had tried to understand my mother and her mother before her. Although that was interesting it wasn't very helpful in changing my pain into wisdom or a healing experience.
In order to do that I had to write about me, what was it like to be my mother's daughter, and what was it going to take to step into my own life without her and heal.
As a psychotherapist, I counseled too many women crying in my office about their relationships with their mothers. It was heartbreaking. I added some of these stories into the book.
I didn't want my book to be something women read and then slipped back on the shelf. I wanted it to be a book women used to guide them through their own experiences. In order to create that kind of book I thought it best to include writing tasks that would lead daughters into the depths of how their identities as women were formed and what the relationship with their mothers meant for them.
This book has dulled the pain I carried for most of my life in relationship to being my mother's daughter. It brought new revelations about who I am and who she was as a woman in her own skin. It showed me that my mother did the best she could and that I, too, did the best I could as her daughter. It showed me that my healing had nothing to do with her, where we were the same, and where we separated into our own identities.
I hope every teenage girl learns this point of difference. I hope every daughter knows where her own glory stands.
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