by KCLAnderson | Oct 26, 2020 | Adult daughter, Awareness, Boundaries, Emotions, Feminism, Generational patterns, Mother Wound, Mother-daughter relationship, Re-mothering, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Shadow, Shame
You’ve come here to work on the relationship you have with your mother. To establish healthy, mature boundaries. Inevitably, you will also work on the relationship you have with yourself. And the relationships you have with others. You will uncover painful...
by KCLAnderson | May 7, 2020 | creativity, Generational patterns, Guilt, inner critic, journal writing, Re-mothering, Shadow, Shame, The Wisdom of Others
I recently read Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed. In the Concessions chapter she talks about watching a TV show in which a teenage girl is about to tell her parents that she’s gay. The girl says, “I have to tell you something. I like girls.” And...
by KCLAnderson | May 7, 2020 | Awareness, Emotions, forgiveness, Generational patterns, Guilt, Mother-daughter relationship, Shame
[…it’s an asshole, “should is an asshole” ~ Jen Pastiloff] Forgiveness is something that comes up A LOT for adult daughters in regards to their mothers. And it usually gets one of two reactions: “Oh I really should forgive her, but I...
by KCLAnderson | Jan 21, 2020 | Anger, Awareness, Emotions, Generational patterns, journal writing, Re-mothering, Self-Acceptance, Shame, The Wisdom of Others
When I shared A Literal Shit Show (Part 1) with the folks who subscribe to my weekly Love Notes, I received MANY responses. Some told me their puppy stories (and shared photos of their sweet pups), some told me their mother stories, some laughed and laughed (some so...
by KCLAnderson | Oct 4, 2019 | Awareness, Emotions, Generational patterns, Mother Wound, Mother-daughter relationship, Re-mothering, Shame
Dear you… A couple of years ago, I was tagged in a thread on Facebook in which someone shared an article about why unloved daughters struggle to escape shame. Several women commented that this had been (and in some cases still is) their experience. “This is my...
by KCLAnderson | Jan 4, 2019 | Awareness, Boundaries, Generational patterns, Shame, The Wisdom of Others
Dear you… This work is iterative. It builds on itself. It’s rarely one-and-done. It’s very rarely ever a simple flip of the switch. You choose to look inward, to heal, to transform yourself using the lens of your relationship with your mother. You...
