by KCLAnderson | Feb 26, 2019 | Boundaries, Empowerment, Mother-daughter relationship
I know what stopped me. My fear that she wouldn’t respect them. Which would mean she didn’t respect ME. And for a very long time I wasn’t willing to take that risk. For years, my fear kept me spinning in self-doubt and confusion about what I wanted....
by KCLAnderson | Feb 22, 2019 | Boundaries, Dementia, Generational patterns, Grandma, Mother-daughter relationship, Relationships
(Do you feel emotionally exhausted by your mother? Setting boundaries is the solution. Click here to sign up for my 1-day online boundaries workshop.) Question from a reader: My mother, who was and is mentally ill, now also has dementia and forgets what I say, even...
by KCLAnderson | Feb 8, 2019 | Boundaries, Mother-daughter relationship
Question from a reader: “My question has to do with how to heal and make these healthy boundaries while my mom lives with me and my family (husband and two boys who are 12 and 10). She has so much of her own baggage and ”wears” it as indecisiveness,...
by KCLAnderson | Feb 7, 2019 | Boundaries, Empowerment, Generational patterns, Mother-daughter relationship, Re-mothering
One evening my husband and I were driving home from a concert and we were talking about something that triggered a memory: I must have been nine or ten years old and my family went to New Hampshire to visit my great-grandparents (my mother’s mother’s...
by KCLAnderson | Feb 1, 2019 | Awareness, Empowerment, Mother-daughter relationship, Relationships, The Wisdom of Others
I received an interesting response to last week’s column (Grieving a mother who is still alive) and wanted to share it because it occurred to me that I AM NOT DOING MY JOB if anyone who reads my books/columns/newsletter believes that they have to wait for...
