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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.
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About the Author:
Linda Athis earns a living as a freelance business writer. She longs for the day when her biggest paycheck comes from her own creative writing. The author has had many identities: Janitor, waitress, actress, appliance saleswoman, Avon lady, business executive, wife, and lizard owner. As evidenced by her poetry, she is also a reformed rebellious daughter.
Review:
Having worked for thirty years in the field of mother/daughter relationships, and with my own mother who is now 89, I have seen this fragile and powerful relationship in its many stages of health and wounding. Linda's poetry moves the reader through all the pain, all the glory, and beautifully into the love and forgiveness that mothers and daughters truly owe each other. ----Dr. Dorothy Firman, psychotherapist, life coach and professor, co-author with her mother of Daughters and Mothers, Making it Work; Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating Mothers
Mother/Daughter relationships are never as peachy as they are depicted on television. Forgiving Mom is an anthology of poetry by daughter Linda Athis, taking a look at the real relationships that set between parents and their children, trying to live up to one another's expectations, unspoken cruelty while still trying to remain a family. Forgiving Mom is a top pick for any woman who has a strained relationship with their mother, and for community library poetry collections. --COPYRIGHT 2008 Midwest Book Review
Read these poems slowly. Read them aloud. Read them to a friend or sibling. Let the wisdom of this courageous poet nudge you to acts of forgiving. --Harold Ivan Smith, American Academy of Bereavement and author of ABC's of Healthy Grieving: A Companion for Everyday Coping
Mother/Daughter relationships are never as peachy as they are depicted on television. Forgiving Mom is an anthology of poetry by daughter Linda Athis, taking a look at the real relationships that set between parents and their children, trying to live up to one another's expectations, unspoken cruelty while still trying to remain a family. Forgiving Mom is a top pick for any woman who has a strained relationship with their mother, and for community library poetry collections. --COPYRIGHT 2008 Midwest Book Review
Read these poems slowly. Read them aloud. Read them to a friend or sibling. Let the wisdom of this courageous poet nudge you to acts of forgiving. --Harold Ivan Smith, American Academy of Bereavement and author of ABC's of Healthy Grieving: A Companion for Everyday Coping
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- PublisherPonderbooks Publishing
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0981512208
- ISBN 13 9780981512204
- BindingSpiral-bound
- Edition number1
- Number of pages22
- EditorD. Louise Brown
- IllustratorMichelle Pierce
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