Book Nook - The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover

 Mothers and daughters often squabble, particularly during the daughter’s teen years. Money, romantic partners, boundaries and alcohol use are common areas of conflict that stand in the way of family harmony. Leslie Glass and her daughter, Lindsey, know all too well that dysfunctional dynamics can escalate and continue into a daughter’s adulthood, creating a divide that can be difficult, but not impossible, to bridge.

 

In their new book, The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover, Leslie Glass, a bestselling author, and Lindsey Glass, an award-winning documentarian, get candid about their own tumultuous relationship and share the formula that helped them reconnect after being estranged for four years.

 

“The book was designed to create hope and healing no matter what’s happened,” Lindsey Glass said. “We do recover. We can heal. We can stop engaging in destructive or unhealthy behavior. It just takes some understanding, compassion and practice.”

 

The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover features an interactive blend of actionable information, compelling storytelling and writing prompts to help bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere.

 

At the book’s core is the four-step process that helped the authors understand each other, ease their conflicts, and rediscover their appreciation and love:

 

• Revealing Your Back Story

• Exploring Your Emotional and Personality Styles

• Understanding Your Conflicts and Triggers

• Learning the Tools to Restore the Love

 

Along the way, readers learn empowering insights about the impact of generational trauma; the most common issues mothers and daughters fight about and why; how to nurture forgiveness and healing; and whether family members should reconcile at all and how to do so safely.

 

To any mothers and daughters out there struggling to get along, the Glasses offer hope that healing is possible, and they provide a positive pathway to peace, no matter how great the divide.

 

“If you take the time to figure out what’s at the root of these things and then find the compassion and the respect to treat this precious person a little bit better knowing what they’re going through, I think the relationship can be so much stronger,” Lindsey Glass added.

 

About the Authors

Lindsey Glass grew up in New York City and received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.A. from New York University. She is an author, screenwriter and cofounder of Reach Out Recovery, where her articles about relationships and recovery reach millions of readers worldwide. Lindsey has written screenplays and TV shows, and has co-produced award-winning documentaries, including The Secret World of Recovery and The Silent Majority, which premiered on PBS in 2014. Lindsey has worked in publishing and communications and served as a recovery advocate for 20 years, from testifying in Congress to teaching her 2019 self-help book, 100 Tips for Growing Up, to recovery and gang reentry programs. Lindsey is a frequently featured speaker, a proud member of Rotary International and a practicing Buddhist. She lives in Los Angeles.

 

Leslie Glass, along with her daughter, Lindsey, is editor of the popular online recovery and wellness magazine Reach Out Recovery. Together they produced the 2016 ASAM media award-winning documentary, The Secret World of Recovery and the WEDU/PBS special The Silent Majority. Leslie Glass is a journalist and the author of 12 novels, including nine USA Today and New York Times bestselling suspense novels featuring NYPD Det. Sgt. April Woo. She is the author of The Teen Guide to Health, and recovery workbooks Find Your True Colors in 12 Steps and the children's coloring book, The 8 C's that Help Me Be All Right. Leslie has worked in advertising, publishing and magazines, and has served as a public member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education, a trustee of The New York Police Foundation and as Vice President of the Asolo Repertory Theatre. She is a member of Rotary International and a recovery, teen mental health and family wellness advocate. She lives in Sarasota, Florida.

 

For more information, please visit https://reachoutrecovery.com/, or visit them on Instagram and TikTok (@ReachOutRecovery or @lindseyglassauthor); or on Facebook (Leslie Glass or Lindsey Glass).