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| 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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| "Linda Athis has touched on the heart and soul of the mother and daughter relationship, a relationship that is complex, full of difficulty and ultimately about love and forgiveness. Having worked for thirty years in the field of mother/daughter relationships, with my own mother who is now 89, I have seen this fragile and powerful relationship in its many stages of health and wounding. Poetry transcends time and space and the poetry that Linda has written about her relationship to her mother, 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." |
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| Dr. Dorothy Firman is the 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; and with her husband the forthcoming Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul. Dorothy is a psychotherapist, life coach and professor. www.motherdaughterrelations.com |
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| "Forgiving Mom is about grown-up love, grown-up forgiveness, and grown-up acceptance of the kind of mother-daughter relationship that's been tested by fire and is too real and too rare to let go. Not often does a book come along that says what you've longed to say. Forgiving Mom will be cherished by mothers and daughters who have learned that forgiveness is love in full bloom." |
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Carol D. O'Dell
Author, Mothering Mother |
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| "Linda Athis' Forgiving Mom shimmers with the almost unbearably poignant courage it takes to love one's mother in a mother-hating culture and with her pure unguardedness in the face of the moment she is about to lose her mother." |
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| Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., Harvard University, author of Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship |
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| "Forgiving Mom offers a long-overdue gift to individuals who have experienced tough lifepaths with a mother. 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." |
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| Harold Ivan Smith, American Academy of Bereavement and author of ABC's of Healthy Grieving: A Companion for Everyday Coping |
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