Rosjke Hasseldine

In my fourth blog on Mother-Daughter Attachment, I tell Selma’s story (name and identifying details changed) who came to see me because she wanted to stop putting herself last in her relationships because she was sick and tired of being overlooked and overruled by her husband, family, friends, and at work.

This is the third blog in my Mother-Daughter Attachment series. In this blog I tell the story of how I worked with Clara and Adele (names and identifying details changed), helping them understand the underlying causes for why they were so critical towards each other, and how they healed their mother-daughter bond.

This is the second blog in my Mother-Daughter Attachment series. In this blog I tell the story of how I worked with Charlotte (name and identifying details changed), helping her understand and deal with her mother’s jealous behavior.

Attachment theory is taught in psychology courses and counseling and psychotherapy training courses, because it teaches us about our human need to feel emotionally attached to our primary caregivers when we are young, and it connects the dots between our early attachment experiences and how we behave as adults in our relationships.

Hulu’s popular series “The Handmaid’s Tale” has shone a much-needed light on how sexism and patriarchy silences women, in order to limit women’s roles, rights, and power.