Advice Goddess Radio, LIVE Tonite, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET: Science Writer Peg Streep On Overcoming The Legacy Of A Mean Mother
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I've written that family are people who treat you like family. Sometimes, sadly, one's mother -- the closest familial relation a person can have -- isn't included in that group.
Mother's Day is a tough holiday for some people -- for those whose mothers have died and for those whose mothers were far from the loving, nurturing protectors that others' mothers seem to be.
Science writer Peg Streep, herself the daughter of mean mother, is my guest tonight, talking about her book, Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt.
She'll explain why it's been taboo to even let on that you have a cold, unloving mother as well as how such a mother shapes children, and especially daughters, in negative ways.
However, she'll also show us the ways out: How she and other daughters of mean mothers have managed to find, believe it or not, the positives in their experience; and how they can go forward, both as more psychologically healthy human beings and as good mothers to their own children.
Listen at this link from 7-8 pm Pacific, 10-11 pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/05/05/science-writer-peg-streep-on-overcoming-the-legacy-of-a-mean-mother
Don't miss last week's show, Denise Minger On "Death By Food Pyramid" And How To Eat A Science-Based Diet.
How did so many of us get so fat and unhealthy?
Well, it started when our government advised us to eat a high-carb, low-fat diet -- a diet that actually makes us fat and unhealthy. News reports distorting scientific findings and reporters unable to tell solid science from the shoddy kind are another problem -- leaving most of us pretty confused about what we should be eating.
On this show, Denise Minger (of "The China Study" debunking fame) changes that. She lays out the disturbing history of the ruining of America's health. She explains simple ways the ordinary person can identify scientific distortions in the media. And she details the nuances of science-based healthy eating (whether you're a vegetarian or a carnivore or something in between).
Minger's meticulous (and very readable) book we'll be discussing is Death By Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health.
Listen at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/04/28/denise-minger-death-by-food-pyramid-how-to-eat-a-science-based-diet
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Gregg said you couldn't see the chat room.
My comment was that my sister was 50 when she finally divorced my mother last year. I pretty much left for the USAF in 1985 at the age of 19. I haven't been back to the home for more than a week since then. There was a ten+ year gap at one point.
If it is left to me me to figure out what to do with her after she dies I'm seriously thinking about memorial reefs.
If I were to win the lottery, I would set my mother up for life including an assistant that would be required to warn me when she was within 500 miles of me.
But it was an interesting show that allows children to forgive themselves for realizing that their mothers (and sometimes fathers) suck and it isn't always wrong to want the separation.
Jim P. at May 4, 2014 8:13 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/05/advice-goddess-164.html#comment-4584589">comment from Jim P.I actually saw that -- I just couldn't type to respond. And thanks so much -- it is such a huge taboo. That's why I wanted to do this before Mother's Day.
Amy Alkon
at May 4, 2014 11:04 PM
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