All Women Are Daughters
6-Week Zoom Workshop
Wednesday afternoons
November 12 - December 17, 2025
2:00 pm to 4:30 pm (PST)
One of the most common topics in my workshops is stories of mothers and daughters. The themes in this workshop series are drawn from the work of Mary Dell and Marilyn Boynton in their book, Goodbye Mother, Hello Woman : Reweaving the Daughter Mother Relationship. Each week you will be introduced to a theme that builds on the previous theme, taking you on a journey to seeing your mother as a woman.
What You Can Expect
Writing prompts and activities to nudge your memories.
Conversations with the other women in this small, safe group will open up shared experiences and reveal the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship.
At home you will write a two-page, 800 - 1,000 word life story.
The following week you will share your story with the women in the group. No critique; only encouragement and support. You only read stories you are comfortable sharing.
Themes
Getting to Know Your Roots
“Every story begins inside a story that’s already begun by others. Long before we take our first breath, there’s a plot well underway with characters and a setting we did not choose but which were chosen for us.”
—Richard Blanco
Your Mother and Yourself
“Every mother is not all the mother she quite hoped to be, and every woman has a mother who wasn’t quite all she needed her to be.”
—Ann Voskamp
The Gifts Your Mother Gave You
“I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me that you won’t look at them until after I’m gone. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother kept journals. But not as much of a shock as it was to discover that the three shelves of journals were all bank.”
—Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
What You and Your Mother Never Talked About
“Family secrets have generational effects. Children implicitly understand the holes, the stories left unsaid, and these can eat away at feelings of safety and security in the world.”
—Robyn Fivush
The Journey to Saying Goodbye Mother, Hello Woman
“Until you see your mother as a woman, you see every woman as your mother. ”
—Mary Dell
“Our relationship with our mother anchored every other relationship in our lives.”
