Joyce McFadden: How to be a Better Mother in the New Year

Posted on | January 12, 2009 |

There’s always a spike in mother/daughter material in my practice every year at this time when adult daughters are ready to pull their hair out because their mothers have hurt them over the holidays. A season unto itself, the barreling intensity around food and body image starts with the on-ramp to Thanksgiving and ends with brake-slamming remorse and subsequent resolutions for the New Year.