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Unloved Daughters: 7 Strategies for Dealing with the Wounds
“Why is this so damn hard?” one woman messaged me after she read my original post. She’s 45, a...
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Unloved Daughters and the Dance of Denial
Photo by Brooke Cagle. Copyright free. Unsplash.com It’s a testament to both the centrality and complexity of the mother-daughter...
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Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds
Photo by Yaoqui Lai. Copyright free. Unsplash.com In the years since I researched and wrote Mean Mothers, I’ve talked...
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8 Types of Toxic Patterns in Mother-Daughter Relationships
Photo by Monika Koclajda. Used with permission. All rights reserved. It’s true enough that all daughters of unloving and...
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Your Brain Is Nagging You.
Here Are 5 Ways to Make It Stop.Your job review is scheduled in two days and, in passing, your boss says, “Well, we’ll certainly have a...
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The Trouble With Trust
Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships. It governs all...
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Why We Fall for Narcissists
Elena Sikorskaya/Shutterstock Most of us will, at one point or another, find ourselves reflecting on or recovering from a...
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3 More Things You Didn’t Realize About How Your Brain Works
We all pride ourselves on making considered, well-thought-out decisions, and avoiding snap judgments based on little or no information....
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5 Surefire Ways to Kill a Relationship
The self-help genre often offers up solutions to our issues without forcing us to reflect on what we’re actually...
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The Most Toxic Pattern in Any Relationship
Ana Blazic Pavlovic/Shutterstock My last (failed) relationship, it turns out, is a psychological cliché, which is disheartening but at...