Being too close & enmeshed in your daughter’s life will prevent her from finding herself, her path, & her happiness. In this podcast, learn the many ways that it can look when parents are too enmeshed in their daughter’s life, why it happens, and what girls need. Some examples of enmeshed parent-daughter relationships:·        Daughter makes choices and decisions to please and not disappoint parents·        Parents using their daughter as their confidant, causing girls to become overwhelmed·        Girls feel they are responsible for their parent’s happiness, depression, or any mental health issue·        Parents have a really hard time letting their daughters grow, leave the nest, and become their own person independent of their mom·        Parents become way too involved in their daughter’s schoolwork, friendships, dating relationships, and decision-making What can girls & parents do?

• Parents need to become aware of any ways they are being overinvolved or are too dependent on their daughters
• Parents need to work through past issues, express feelings, and make better sense of them so as not to put their stories into their daughters
• Parents need to handle their own present issues, like marriage problems so that your D doesn’t need to feel responsible
• Girls need to understand why their parents act the way they do so they don’t take it personally or take responsibility for their parent’s feelings, mental health, or happiness; this is not about me!

·        It’s important that girls find healthy adults to talk to, vent, share: friend’s parents, counselor·        Use one-on-one counseling for your daughter, yourself, and your marriage if needed as well as family counseling Girls need space to become who they were meant to be, not be shackled with their parent’s old baggage, space to find themselves and make choices based on what’s right for them, solve their own problems, make mistakes and learn from them, and to follow their own path and create their own destiny. If your daughter needs help with the above-mentioned issues, call my office at 636-530-1883 to get some one-on-one counseling.

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