Love Saved My Life www.People.com Reality star, Bethenny Frankel, talks to People Magazine about how she survived her painful childhood and estrangement from her mother and father, and found joy as a wife and mom. Bethenny is one of the stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City and is now in her…
Jodie Foster and her Mom Jodie Foster brought many to tears Sunday night when she spoke of her ailing mother during her revealing Golden Globes speech while receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. One might assume that Foster’s beautiful sentiments must surely mean that mother and daughter had a solid, uncomplicated relationship. But…
Healing Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationships
By P. Hunter, O, The Oprah Magazine It’s usually about nurturing her child—not swilling vodka, hitting on her daughter’s boyfriends, and setting her up with frat boys by stranding her at the bar. A daughter relives her stormy relationship with her mother and the way she finally found the calm within it. Lots of daughters…
By Madison Hill The New Year is notorious for bringing cold weather conditions. I usually just grit my teeth and bear the cold with a few (million) complaints here and there. For mom, however, the cold presents some serious chilly-challenges. This winter, I’ve found that with a little bit of proper preparation, I can conquer…
TODAY In her new book, “Do I Look Fat in This?,” Jessica Weiner says moms who fixate on dieting can influence their daughters’ behavior. There’s no denying that mothers and daughters have always shared a special bond with each other. Mothers have a powerful influence on their daughters that can be positive — or, sometimes,…
P. Jefferson Mothers, daughters and body image – it’s an emotional and sometimes volatile mix. Our parents’ attitudes about eating and how we should look weave their way into our childhood and continue to affect us well into adulthood. A seemingly harmless word here or there from our mother can have an emotional charge whether…
By Suzanne Koven, M.D., Psychology Today Mother and daughter communicate in the language of fat. My patient–I’ll call her Amy–was heavy. Her mother, Sybil, also my patient, was thin. At Amy’s visits to my office we always discussed her weight. At Sybil’s visits Amy’s weight also came up frequently. “Doctor, can’t you make her lose?”…
By Peggy Orenstein, www.nytimes.com Food is never just food. Food is love. Food is solace. It is politics. It is religion. And if that’s not enough to heap on your dinner plate each night, food is also, especially for mothers, the instant-read measure of our parenting. We are not only what we eat, we are…
By Dara Chadwick Author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies–Even When We Don’t Love Our Own PsychologyToday.com We can break the mother-daughter body loathing cycle. Did you happen to catch the results of the latest body image survey by Glamour magazine? The survey asked nearly 300 women of all…