The Mother-Daughter Circle

“I would like to be more affectionate with my daughter, but she shrugs me off. It didn’t used to be like that.” —Mother of a thirteen-year-old One of the deepest, most loving family relationships is between mother and daughter. But it can also be a bond fraught with tension, conflict, and tumultuous feelings, especially when girls reach adolescence. In this wise book, Celia Straus uses your spiritual nature as a common meeting ground where relationships can be...
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“I would like to be more affectionate with my daughter, but she shrugs me off. It didn’t used to be like that.” —Mother of a thirteen-year-old One of the deepest, most loving family relationships is between mother and daughter. But it can also be a bond fraught with tension, conflict, and tumultuous feelings, especially when girls reach adolescence. In this wise book, Celia Straus uses your spiritual nature as a common meeting ground where relationships can be transformed and healed with straightforward simple connections that will last a lifetime. By providing space for you to write down your feelings on a variety of topics, this book itself becomes a connection, a treasured gift to your child and a tangible tribute to your love for her. With comfort and candor, Celia guides you through the volatile territory of adolescence to a deeper relationship with your child. Her approach takes you step by step to a greater understanding of the effortless connections you and your daughter can make. By sharing intimate experiences from raising her own teenage daughters, as well as a wealth of perceptive insights and personal examples from other mothers and daughters, Celia allows every mother to effortlessly create her own sacred circle.