57: Daughters and Mothers with Julia Vaughan Smith

In this podcast, Julia Vaughan Smith shares her reflections about
mother and daughter relationships, having just completed a book
on the subject. Julia describes the entanglement between mother
and daughter that often occurs, and how this can entrap daughters
into ways of being that don't enable them to flourish. Anger and
hurt can become life scripts that are hard to shake off, limiting
daughters' capacity to have joy in their lives. Simon and Julia
discuss cross-generational patterns, and also how our
relationships to parents continue even when they have died. How
daughters relate to mothers, and children to parents more
generally, requires time and safe spaces to work through and
liberate us from the more destructive patterns and narratives we
get caught up in. Julia shares how through the writing of the
book, her own relationship with her mother changed and she became
more compassionate, understanding and free in the
process. 

Bio

Julia Vaughan Smith is an accredited master executive coach and
coach supervisor; a qualified psychotherapist (no longer
practising) who has spent many years as an organisational and
leadership development consultant primarily in health care.
‘Daughters: How to Untangle Yourself from Your Mother’ is her
third book and her first for a general readership. Her two
previous books ‘Coaching and Trauma’ and ‘Therapist to Coach’
were written for coaches. She has been teaching about coaching
and trauma for the last five years. Her latest book for daughters
will be launched on 3rd April 2023, and will be available from
all booksellers and via www.becomingourselves.co.uk.