I had an amazing experience this past week. I was supposed to be in Malibu for a networking event, and I was considering not going because I had to do so much in a limited amount of time.
But, I went and met a woman who had influenced my life 18+ years ago by my reading her break-thru book: Motherless Daughters.
There she was, seven feet from me...I was so thrilled, it made my day!
Hope Edelman in her book, writes about the loss a young girl experiences when her Mother dies prematurely.
My mother did not pass until I was 55, but her comment in the book about mothers emotionally leaving her child, resonated with me on a profound level; for the first time someone put words to an feeling I had, but could not express.
She gave me permission to step back from my relationship and see my mother as flawed, responsible but, a victim herself.
It changed the course of my desire to really find out what happened and why...and then be able to heal from that damage.
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