Mother-Daughter Relationship is vital in understanding women

It is gratifying see an increase in mother-daughter relationship issues being treated as something that deserves attention and help, just as much as couples counselling. The mother-daughter relationship is vital and undervalued, even marginalised within the UK, media, Universities, counselling courses and throughout the world. The marginalising of the mother-daughter relationship goes hand in hand with the silencing of women's history, with the sexualisation of girls and women, and with sexism and inequality still being an accepted normal. When we start to understand our female legacy and mother-daughter relationship more, we start to understand how sexism and inequality actually effects us and impacts our lives by reducing our self-esteem, reducing our choices and freedom, and by reducing women into roles and bodies, rather than human beings in their own right who are entitled to live their lives on their terms. This is why Women's Power Circles are so powerful because when women gather and start looking at the three themes we talk about in the circles - the loss of women's needs voice, feelings invisible and our reduced sense of entitlement, we start to peel away our internalised sexism and emotional silencing and start seeing our mothers and grandmother's as products and victims of the sexism in their generations. I am writing about this at the moment in the next book and I wonder how many doctors, writers, painters, etc have been lost in our mother's and grandmother's generations because they weren't allowed to follow their passion.