Rosjke Hasseldine

The mother-daughter relationship is central to the #MeToo and #Time’s Up Movements because the mother-daughter relationship has the power to challenge harmful generational patterns and change normalized gender inequality.

Solving mother-daughter relationship conflict isn’t as complicated as is commonly believed. Through the years that I have specialized in the mother-daughter relationship, I have learned that when we recognize, as I wrote in my previous blog post, that the mother-daughter relationship is a mirror reflection of how women are treated, mother-daughter relationship conflict becomes a whole lot easier to understand and heal.

Mothers and daughters are suffering from relationship conflict at epidemic levels. Ask any female about whether she gets on with her mother or daughter, and chances are, you will find a large percentage of women admit to having difficulties with creating the mother-daughter relationship they yearn for.

Starting on Monday March 12, 2018, there is a two week event organized by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, where women from around the world gather in New York City to discuss women’s rights and equality.

My journey to being a mother-daughter relationship therapist began nearly thirty years ago when my daughter was born. When my midwife announced that I had a baby girl, the first thing I thought was that I needed to understand my mother and why my relationship with her was full of conflict.