This often moving, sometimes bittersweet, and ultimately heartwarming book by Dr. Valerie Davis Raskin, subtitled, “Overcoming the Nine Key Challenges – from Crib to Empty Nest,” is one of the first books to focus on the growth of a mother more so than that of a child.

The stories it contains come from both Dr. Raskin’s interviews with mothers as well as things she encountered in her clinical practice, but regardless of each story’s background, they are all universal. Every mother everywhere will find her deepest fears expressed, her doubts reassured, and her joy validated in this book and the heartening words and advice Dr. Raskin provides.

Like an old friend you didn’t know you missed, this book will provide comfort, encouragement, and strength as you face the challenges all mothers deal with – identity, unloving moments, honoring the father, separation, setting limits, imperfect institutions, revised dreams, adversity, and saying good-bye – and will help as you grow and change to meet new challenges and needs. Motherhood isn’t perfect. It is messy, trying, and sometimes downright ugly. But this book can help us all carry on no matter what stage of motherhood we are in by providing a sense of solace and solidarity that we all need every now and then.

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