Surviving Ophelia Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years (Audible Audio Edition) Cheryl Dellasega PhD Marguerite Gavin Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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Insightful, heartfelt, and hopeful, Surviving Ophelia is a must-read for any mother of a teenage daughter who has ever felt disappointed, alone or afraid.
Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to cope with all that they must do for their daughters.
To provide the community that these women so desperately crave, Cheryl Dellasega has written Surviving Ophelia, a book of profound wisdom and compassion. Dellasega's own story of raising her teenage daughters is punctuated by the collective experience of hundreds of other mothers from all walks of life who have been there, in the trenches, experiencing and chronicling the daily joys and trials of raising their teenage girls.
Surviving Ophelia Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years (Audible Audio Edition) Cheryl Dellasega PhD Marguerite Gavin Inc Blackstone Audio Books
This book follows two previous books. The first was written by a therapist who helped troubled adolescent girls in the 90's and the second was anthology of essays written by adolescent about their struggles. Now this is the mother's side and is brilliant. Being a teen is tough but raising daughters who are high strung and testing out life for the first time can be even tougher. This collection of stories if insightful three series are helpful to those who might have difficult relationships with their pubescent girls.Product details
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Surviving Ophelia Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years (Audible Audio Edition) Cheryl Dellasega PhD Marguerite Gavin Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
This collection of narratives by moms with "troubled" daughters should definitely be on the bookshelf of every mom with a girl... even if she isn't yet "in trouble." The relationship between mothers and daughters has always been complicated, and you'll find if you search the internet, what Dellasega says about there being no community for women to exchange their experiences is true. There are plenty of places for parents to ask questions and share experiences about toddlers, and pregnancy, but it's like the communities disappear as soon as the real trouble starts.
This book, as well as Dellasega's website, which you can find in the book's notes (which I found out about through an online discussion of her book) try to create a community (both online and off) of moms' and daughters' voices for those who need it, and those who might someday need it. And how will we know we need it, until it's too late? Read this book now...
Many mothers share their insight and their personal stories on raising teenage daughters. Cheryl Dellasega has created a book that allows mothers across the country to share their own personal challenges on raising teenage daughters.
You will read about anorexia, dishonesty, vulnerabilities, crisis intervention, boundaries, love, survival and so much more. Cheryl's book is a gift and like many gift's it was born of pain. She reveals much of herself and her own struggles with her teenage daughter Ellen. Ellen writes a piece in the end as to where they are now. Her portion brought me to tears as her relationship with her mother remains intact.
Many other mothers were not so lucky some have lost their daughters to death others to estrangement. The underlying sense from all mothers is of love and wanting to do their best even when faced with situations they find themselves ill prepared. Raising a daughter with difficulties can push an otherwise proud mother into isolation. Isolation from her peer parents. Mothers tend to take their daughters difficulties on as though they have failed. This book gives you a sense of community, a book that allows mothers to feel less isolated.
Congratulations Cheryl, you did it! My own written contribution appears in Chapter 14 titled "Ophelia With and Without Fathers." Well researched and well written for any/every mother of a daughter.
Ten years later and the stories are still relevant. The mother-daughter relationship is said to be the most complex and complicated of all relationships and can offer the greatest rewards and the most gut wrenching of challenges.
I enjoy understanding the dynamic that makes a girl develop into the women I know now. I feel the same energy, I can be a father figure or a detested lover, yet I am a cancer patient who has been impotent and my Ophelia is someone that I truly love, and I can prove it.
I'll call her Lynn.
Shes been living in her van yet her mother, a PhD, seems to have abandoned her...? I know she wants to run, yet it takes a lot of work to help her now.
Today her life is so unsafe it drives me crazy. Recently she was beat up twice and I went to her, like I always will. She talks longingly of her deceased father yet she wishes her mother would not even know she had died until 30 days later. A cry for love, professor?
She hates me right now but thankfully this book and its author have been amazing for me to understand this woman that I love and adore. Her name is not Ophelia, although it does seem that Mom has banked on her with that clever diagnosis and series of interviews and even a summer camp. But to me she is a beautiful unique flower and a very talented dancer.
The west coast is not safe, but I will do anything to protect her, doctor. I am willing to meet her brother as well. I am on her side no matter what and I do not like medications either.
Yet i am calling Mom out to show up and put her in an apartment like I myself have in Palm Springs. She's been here but of course I angered her. I myself am from Slab City, that's all you need to know. I've never slept with her and I always admired the woman. Look me up, I am very fearless lately.
The psychosis and the drugs are very dangerous. I need your help. I lived on the streets for five years after being diagnosed with cancer, I have been stage 4 for 3 years. I am 54 and i need to do this.
I got this book hoping for some stories of dealing with ordinary adolescent angst. If you've read the book that this book takes the title from -- Reviving Ophelia -- you might expect the book to help with adolescent shyness, social awkwardness, the problem of girls losing their voices. Instead, this book offers anecdotes about very serious situations -- anorexia leading to death, drug use, violence -- and there is very little hope in the scenarios.
This book follows two previous books. The first was written by a therapist who helped troubled adolescent girls in the 90's and the second was anthology of essays written by adolescent about their struggles. Now this is the mother's side and is brilliant. Being a teen is tough but raising daughters who are high strung and testing out life for the first time can be even tougher. This collection of stories if insightful three series are helpful to those who might have difficult relationships with their pubescent girls.
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