The Complicated Relationship Between Mothers & Daughters

All relationships are complicated… but perhaps none are more complicated than the relationship between mother and daughter. Today, we get honest about some of the factors that make the mother-daughter relationship so loaded… things we’ve learned both as therapists, and have experienced in our own lives. 

Listen as we discuss:

• The messages we receive as women about having a daughter: 
• That we will either be best friends or have a lot of conflict with our daughters
• That we are not complete unless we have a daughter
• The ways that societal expectations for little boys and little girls are different
• How trying to change the roles and expectations for women make parenting our daughters complicated
• How our own experiences with female friendships and with our own mothers shape our relationships with our daughters
• How our own insecurities show up in our relationships with our daughters
• How we can sometimes try to correct things that we see in our daughters because we see them in ourselves, and how it can be really hard to separate what is ours from what is hers
• The elephant in the room... how our relationships with our own mothers shapes our relationships with our daughters

Plus, Andrea channels her inner Freud; Jessica models receiving a compliment; and we both step into the confessional a record number of times as we discuss our raw thoughts and feelings about the complicated relationships we have with the relationship we have with having daughters (<< did you catch all of the layers here??).

Like this episode? Check out these:

• Feel Like You Can't Get it Right? Here's Why (August 30, 2023) - all about the double binds we face as women!
• Rethinking the 'Girl Squad' (September 6, 2023) - because our relationships with other women totally shape our expectations for our relationship with our daughters.
• You Asked, we Answered! (October 18, 2023) - another episode where we spent a lot of time... maybe the whole time...in the confessional, as we answered the questions you have about therapists.

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Honest Women is the podcast for every woman juggling the demands of modern life (while trying to keep her shit together) and finding that it’s all just a little more difficult than she thought it would be. Your hosts, Andrea Burkly and Jessica Hutchison, are two very real mental health professionals who are taking honest conversations from inside their offices to the outside world.

Disclaimer:

Please note while this podcast features two therapists, and may feel very therapeutic, this is not therapy! Please be entertained, and know that through our creative content, we are not providing mental health care. No diagnosis. No treatment. No medical advice. Just creative content. Please seek appropriate mental health support in the real world.

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