Don’t Be Your Daughter’s Best Friend
How Healthy Boundaries Actually Bring You Closer The relationship you’ve been longing for isn’t built on being everything to each other. It’s built on knowing where you each begin and end and that is not being your daughter’s best friend. Maybe you’ve always wanted to be your daughter’s best friend, or the mom your daughter […]
Recovery Burnout: When Recovery Itself Is Exhausting
You’re doing the work. So why does healing feel so hard right now? You May Have Recovery Burnout Meet recovery burnout. You’ve been going to therapy. Attending your meetings. Journaling, meditating, doing all the things you’re “supposed” to do. And yet, somewhere along the way, you started dreading the very routines that were supposed to […]
Healing Your Inner Critic: Rewriting Mom’s Voice
Healing Your Inner Critic Isn’t As Hard As You Think Healing your inner critic may sound intimidating but it is not as hard as you think. Awareness about when it happens and whose voice Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “I should’ve done better,” or “Why can’t I ever get it right?” That voice in […]
Mother Daughter Trauma Quiz: Are You Repeating the Past in Your Relationships
Mother Daughter Trauma Quiz: Are You Repeating the Past in Your Relationships Are you ready for the mother daughter trauma quiz? Not sure? Here’s the question – are your adult relationships troubled in different ways? Did you have a difficult or toxic mom? It could be that unhealed issues from mom and childhood are STILL […]
How Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Your Relationships
Love, But Never Enough: How Unhealed Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Adult Relationships I had mother daughter trauma and that’s why I write about it. For me, my mother daughter trauma seeped into my entire life influencing all my relationships for the worse. Here’s why… The mother-daughter bond is our first blueprint for love. When that […]
The Caregiving Daughter: From Duty to Burnout
The Silent Burnout of The Caregiving Daughter: When Caretaking Becomes a Life Sentence Are you a caregiving daughter? If you are one, you know it. I am one and at times it’s dominated and become toxic for me. That’s why I encourage other women who find themselves in this role to make sure they are […]