by Janice Williams | Connection, Generation, Mental Health, Mother Daughter, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
This is not my usual blog on mother-daughter relationships. Yet recently, I’ve noticed an increase in conversations, both in my counselling room and across social media, about women who are choosing to “date themselves”. These women may or may not have a...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Mothers and Daughters, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
Generations of women have been conditioned to prioritise others’ emotions over their own. Mothers, shaped by this legacy, often seek emotional support from their daughters who, in turn, struggle to set boundaries without guilt. This cycle leads to resentment,...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
The Invisible Women Now that I’ve celebrated another trip around the sun, I have been assigned a new name – Dear, Lovely, Lovie, Sweetie, Honey and many iterations from these. Though these names are cute to some and well-meaning to others, I find these...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
Signe Hammer: “Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.” Signe Hammer refers to the generations of women connected together, relationships with each other, linking mothers and daughters down...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
Are you feeling invisible in your relationship with your mother? Do you feel like she’s too busy to notice you? Always walking in her shadow, trying to get her attention? I often hear comments from women about their mothers, along the lines of – “it’s impossible...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
The other day I was reflecting on patriarchy and stereotypes in families and in the mother-daughter relationship. Recently I read a story by Prerna Singh Rai. A young woman, Arohi, wants to be a journalist, but her father wants her to be an accountant. Arohi points...
