Julianna’s story… My mom passed away on Wednesday morning at 8:59 am, March 14th, in the midst of her long battle with cancer. Exactly 1 day and 4 hours after the anniversary of my father’s passing 15 years earlier. I had the honor to be by her bedside leading up to her big transition, and…
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(Watch video below and then read article that follows) ‘I’m Not Your Little Baby!’ Calling a Truce in Mother-Daughter Conflict By Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal Online Jessica Setnick was on her way to her mother’s house for dinner when she decided that she had something to say that couldn’t wait. She sent her mom…
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Social psychologist Susan Newman, a leading authority in the family relationship and parenting fields, provides advice for building stronger family ties when family members rejoin each other for long or short periods of time. Adapted from the book Under One Roof Again: All Grown Up and (Re)learning to Live Together Happily by Susan Newman, Ph.D.…
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By Laurie Newkirk My Mother hurt my feelings so much a few weeks ago that I started yelling at her. I thought I was now past that but it seems she pushed a button of mine. Okay… so my mother really hurt me and I acted badly, now what do I do? Forgiving her and…
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By Dr. Dinah Miller When it comes to the Mother-Daughter relationship, I’ve come to realize that part of the issue is one of perspective and that parents come at their job from a completely different perspective than their children. Parents see their children as people who’ve come into the world with nothing. At some level,…
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Leeza Gibbon’s tells her story of depression while caring for her mother with dementia. Watch video interview and read excerpt from her book, Take Your Oxygen First. Jennifer Aniston Speaks Out About Her Mom Jennifer Aniston – Did You Know? Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born February 11, 1969 to soap opera actor John Aniston and…
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CT Press Club Award-Winning Article… By Barbara Wilkov The holidays are coming…great joy, compassionate giving, good food, good friends, time spent with your loved ones, sugar plums dancing in your head…scratch that…crowded shopping malls, spending money you don’t have for gifts no one will appreciate anyway, cooking and baking with too little time for too…
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It doesn’t matter who you are… Your picks for Top 20 TV Moms of all time: Even famous mothers and famous daughters struggle with the same relationship issues we do. Take at a look at our Celebrity Moms and Daughters Archive Although these articles are older, we are leaving them on the website because they…
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