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Mother’s Day – A Preparation

In a few days, we celebrate Mother’s Day and for most of us it is a very complex celebration. Is it a day for mothers regardless of their strength in mothering? Is it a day when every year, year after year, we acknowledge the woman who gave birth to us, including the...

Mothering & Your Other Mothers

I’ve been spending many hours over the last weeks considering mother as an ideal as I shape the Inner Mother Inner Father program (see below). What is the ideal of mother or your ideal mother? Here are a couple of dictionary definitions of ideal to help you with the...

A New Independence

 Happy 4th of July! Give yourself a new independence!  My Mother’s Day post and my Father’s Day post generated a large number of personal emails and requests for private conversations with me. I am not surprised as how we were mothered and fathered is...

Mother’s Day – A Day of Forgiveness

Cards, flowers, gifts, brunches and dinners, smiles and hugs and sweet words of appreciation, gratitude and love – that’s what Mother’s Day is all about — another sentimental celebration of the ideal.  But what if it were a day of celebrating the shadows of...