My Mother, My Friend

The Ten Most Important Things to Talk About With Your Mother.

Every woman has things she wants to talk about with her mother - but can't. Big questions about health, aging, and money, and more personal issues about family secrets and Mum's relationship with Dad have usually made for extremely difficult conversations. Until now.

In this book, communications expert and beloved national speaker Mary Marcdante shows us simple strategies and time-tested techniques for breaking down the barriers. She shows us step by step how to melt the ice that has formed over the years and have a real conversation with Mum, no matter how touchy the topic.

Organised in a ten-step program, topics include:
- Getting to Know You - how to begin
- I Am Woman - health and sexuality
- Pennies from Heaven - money and financial issues
- When You Walk Through a Storm - resolving conflict
- Do You Want to Know a Secret? - family secrets

The author shows us that these conversations are not only important, they also can be enjoyable and can deeply enrich our relationships with our mothers. Drawing from stories told to her by hundreds of her workshop participants as well as from her own personal experience, Mary Marcdante gives us a warm, encouraging, and practical book that will make an enormous difference.