I enjoyed reading this as a different take on motherhood. Importantly, that none of us are perfect. We always see someone else we think is a better mother than us but know they too have their struggles.
I think many of us blame out mothers for our issues and this book discusses this and how much of an effect our parents have on us as adults.
There are many types of parents covered in this book along with stories the reader can relate to which keeps the book from feeling overly clinical.
I recommend this book to all mothers young and old along with women who feel inadequate or that have issues currently or in the past with their own mother.

As someone who dealt with a difficult and complicated relationship with her mum growing up this was a
great book to help process emotions and learn to accept and communicate better

Mother is Mother, Daughter is Daughter”

- A self-recovery guide for all of mothers and daughters by a psychoanalytic expert

- How mothers can reclaim their lives as an independent woman and human being

Why do mothers turn more to their daughters than sons when feeling upset or distressed? Why do mothers look upon their happily married daughters with not just pride but a hint of jealousy? Why do daughters, when thinking about their mothers, feel gratitude as well as guilt and resentment?

We need to lose our mothers to find ourselves. And we need to find ourselves for our daughters to live their own lives. Park Woo Ran, a psychoanalytic expert who for more than ten years has conducted over 10,000 psychotherapy and dream interpretation sessions, reaches deep into psychology research and case studies to unlock the secret behind the love-hate relationship between mothers and daughters and explain how we can protect our girls from this emotional wounding across generations.

This deep psychological bond between the mother and daughter starts to show cracks as they become older, introducing problems, both big and small, into their lives. Feelings of obsession, bitterness, resentment, longing, and gratitude get rolled into one and make the two oscillate between love and hate. In short, the mother and daughter have failed to create a healthy distance between themselves.

Then what can we do? Park says we should question the social concept of unconditional motherly love and try to bring to surface the mom’s deeply-buried wants and desires as a woman. Only then can we forge a path different from our mother’s and our daughters live a different life from our young selves.

THEN GET THE BOOK NOW! and start growing your skills to strengthen your relationships between MOMs and DAUGHTERs!

An interesting which gets you thinking. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review this book

This is an interesting topic and it’s natural that daughters bond well with their mothers. The author who is also a doctor reminds us that mothers aren’t perfect and should not carry guilt. The topics are heavy and she shares stories from her patients. It’s easy to read and somewhat relatable. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy.