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What It Was, What It Is

By: Pat LaPointe, 5/21/2013 8:32:31 AM

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This is the month in which one day has been designated the day to honor Mothers. Whether you are a mother and/or have a mother still in your life, we ask: “Shouldn’t it be something we do for more than one day?”
There are tons of books written about the mother-daughter relationship. Some glorify it, but more often they address the conflicts between mothers and daughters. I think for most of us we can agree with the themes in both of these books. We have experienced the “glory” as well as the “conflict”.
I think about the process of choosing an appropriate Mother’s Day card. If our relationship contained more “glory”, it is easy to choose the card that reflects the caring and nurturing we received. For those whose relationships were more conflict than glory, it becomes stressful to find a card that is consistent with our feelings.
This month, I’ve selected some paragraphs from an essay written by Jan Marquart, who offers a way in which to understand the mother-daughter relationship and a method for recovering from the trauma experienced in relationships in which conflict existed.
Jan Marquart LCSW and author (website: www.JanMarquart.com, email: jan_marquart@yahoo.com) has over thirty years’ experience helping women talk and write through their unwanted journeys. Besides her private counseling practice in Austin, Jan offers writing workshops both in person and on line. She is the author of eight books.
Jan has designed a six-step intensive writing program to assist women in this process. By writing deeply the emotional impact of the injury, from everyday stress to trauma, gets brought out into the light. Every woman is a daughter and every daughter has learned how to manage her own soul pain through watching and learning from her mother. But daughters do not have to carry on the legacy of their mothers. With imagination, creativity, a reorganization of her belief system, and a vision for a healed self, she can blossom into the woman she desires to become.

This process has proven effective for women around the world. No writing skills are necessary in order to express and expose the broken inner self. This is a process of uncovering, discovering, and recovering through deep writing. This process takes commitment and a knowing of one’s right to live a healthy life and still love and give to those in her world. Women have the capacity to change the world but only if they change themselves first.

I encourage you to learn more about Jan’s work and writing.

About the Author Network is about to launch. This amazing website will cater to everyone in the writing community. Writers, editors, authors, publicists, publishers, agents, and anyone else related to the writing community will have an opportunity to sign up for a free writing newsletter or join one of four memberships. There will be slots for ads to advertise books, products, and services. Go to About the Author Network to find conferences and other important events. Writers can go to About the Author Network to find professionals to help them with their writing projects and those offering services can find writers who need their services. Stay tuned for the opening. For more information contact: CEO Jan Marquart at jan_marquart@yahoo.com.

Jan’s books are:
Echoes From the Womb, a Book for Daughters
Voices From the Land
The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen
Write to Heal
The Basket Weaver
Kate’s Way
The Breath of Dawn, a Journey of Everyday Blessings
How to Write Your Own Memoir (small booklet)
How to Write From the Heart (small booklet)

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