by Janice Williams | Personal Growth, Relationships, Wellbeing
Often I am asked about the work that I do as a Mother-Daughter Relationships Coach. It is an unusual vocation, it’s not a job title that many have heard of. It is an attachment model that helps women uncover underlying conflict and disconnection in their relationship...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Relationships
Not sure how to survive your difficult mother on Mother’s Day? Read on and discover that you are not alone in your journey. The words ‘celebrate’ and ‘happy’ are often synonymous for two specific days of the year – Christmas Day and Mother’s Day. Both days are...
by Janice Williams | Relationships, Wellbeing
In my blog about lost sense of self, I talk about the Lost Woman, loss of identity within mother-daughter relationships. There is a story of a teacher who gave her class of second-graders a written test about a magnet and its purpose. In the test, she included...
by Janice Williams | Mental Health, Relationships, Wellbeing
“Just when you think you’re done with the past, the past isn’t done with you” Alannah Hill. Emotional starvation in childhood creates difficulty in dealing with emotions and as adults, will seek out people to fill the emptiness within. In her memoir “Butterfly On A...
by Janice Williams | Parenting, Relationships
Birdnesting. No, it’s not a bunch of birds getting together to drop an egg or two. Birdnesting, or nesting, is for parents with relationship issues to consider. Nesting co-parenting helps kids to stay in the family home while parents alternate between family home and...
by Janice Williams | Parenting, Relationships, Wellbeing
Have you heard yourself say things to your kids and then realise that it’s the same thing that your parent said to you? It can be a jolt, particularly if you thought to yourself that you did not want to become like your mum or dad. How parents influence your life is a...
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