Forgiving Mom - For Daughters and Mothers in Conflict

I used to get angry looking for Mother's Day cards. None reflected my reality. Complex and conflicted. That was my relationship with Mom. Quite dramatically, near the end of her life, I had a huge, emotional download. I was anxious and driven. I could not stop the words, scribbling on scraps of paper, restaurant napkins, crying into a digital recorder. Once, I hid in the bathroom to dictate my poetry, not wanting to worry my already alarmed husband. As my Mother's health began to decline, I chose to share most of these poems with her. Their effect on both of us, the understanding, love, and surrender was startling and unforeseen. It has made living much easier for me. Only days after her death, I heard Mom s voice in my head: Now you can publish your poetry. And so I have.Warmly, Linda Athis (Author)

The true relationship between many mothers and daughters is subterranean: Hidden guilt, lifelong verbal jabs, a cruel unspoken level of competition, and a frustrating inability to live up to the Hallmark Card verse we send or receive on Mother s Day. This is a book meant to heal to give courage to mothers and daughters to work things out before the inevitable and final separation death.