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What People Are Saying About
Chicken Soup for the Mother
and Daughter Soul...

Dorothy and Julie Firman have been teaching a mother-daughter workshop at Omega Institute for twenty years. That means that more than 1,000 mothers and daughters have had their relationships uplifted and healed by this dynamic and talented duo. Now they bring their understanding to a book of touching stories that awaken the strong feelings between mothers and daughters. A beautiful reminder for anyone who has a mother or a daughter (or both!) to communicate love, support and gratitude.

Elizabeth Lesser
cofounder, Omega Institute and author, The Seekers Guide:
Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

This wonderful collection of experiences in the lives of real mothers and daughters is heartwarming and provocative. It inspired me to examine all of my close relationships and to reflect on where my life is going.

Alice Hopper Epstein, Ph.D.
author, Mind, Fantasy and Healing: One Womans
Journey from Conflict and Illness to Wholeness and Health

Scratch the surface of any mother and you will find a profound story of birth, death, survival and rebirth. As a daughter of immigrants, I know this, as a mother of daughters, I know this, and as the founder of an organization dedicated to speaking the truth in motherhood, I also know this. When we see a mother pushing a stroller, a mother trying to reason with her teenager, or a daughter helping her own mother up a curb, Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul reminds us to honor each of these unique mothers and daughters and their unique stories. Thank you for reminding us to notice.

Annette Cycon
editor, MotherWoman! Journal and author
of the forthcoming, Mother Woman!
The Truth About Motherhood in the 21st Century

Like a therapeutic massage, this book is full of short, easy-to-read pieces that give you a welcome break.

Ellen Story
Massachusetts State Representative

This book presents the deep wisdom, grace and heart of the stories of womenmothers and daughters. It is a recipe for soul-fulness, for finding authentic values amidst daily lifethis book is a treasure for all to explore.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D.
CEO and Cofounder, Omega Institute and
author, Time Shifting

You dont have to be a mother or daughter to love Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul. Im a father and son, and the book brought tears to my eyes. It is filled with love, joy and healing.

Michael Leach
editor, I Like Being Married and I Like Being American

As a psychotherapist and parent educator, I am moved by the many stories of healing, love and timeless wisdom that are shared by mothers and daughters in this book. Stories like this help to heal the soul and inspire the best within each of us.

Ilene Val-Essen
author, Bring Out the Best in Your Child and Yourself

In this exceptionally poignant book, the authors weave deeply touching and personal stories attesting to the timelessness of this emotionally complex relationship. A must-read for all mothers and daughters!

Robert Friedman
author, The Healing Power of the Drum

The mother-daughter stories that the Firmans have gathered reach for the deep bond of love that underlies this most complex relationship. In a time that is fraught with stories of despair and confusion, this collection offers a message of hope for us all.

Jeanne Lightfoot and Bill Ryan
authors, In the Woods, at the Water: Healing Journeys into Nature

All too often, my male clients believe that they can only experience real emotions in response to a marquee event or highly dramatic moment. These engaging stories can teach men that opening ourselves to the simple and poignant moments may be what most stirs our hearts and reminds us of the treasures in our intimate connections with others.

Kevin Quirk
author, Not Now, Honey, Im Watching the Game

The difficult task of species bonding faces all of us in a world filled with alienation and disconnection. These beautifully crafted stories about mothers and daughters both remind and inspire us fathers and men to refocus our attention away from what separates us, to what matters the mosteach other. This is a must-read for fathers, too.

John B. Franklin, Ph.D.
author, FatherBirth: A Close Encounter of a Fourth Kind

Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul is a book that I highly recommend. The stories range from tales of pain and recovery to stories of laughter and friendship. The book moves one from tears of sadness to smiles of happy recognition and reconciliation. I could see my life with my own daughter in many of the stories.

Shirley Rich Krohn
casting agent

Although I had a problematic relationship with my mother, Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul took me to those poignant moments before and after her death when I saw the gifts she had passed on to me, the wonderful qualities that had been so hidden by her wounding. Moreover, I found myself affirming all those who have mothered me in my life: my grandmother, my mothers best friend, a neighbor, and even my husband, and I recognized all those who have been my daughters as well.

Ann Gila
coauthor, Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit

The authors have put together an intriguing, easy-to-read series of vignettes that will keep you reading until you reach the back cover, and make you wish there were more.

Dick Teresi
author, Lost Discoveries and coauthor, The God Particle

Since Demeter and Persephone, the mother-daughter bond has held eternal fascination. The stories in Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soulfunny, mysterious, tragic, searingly real, whimsicalreally do speak powerfully to the soul.

Judith Hooper
author, Of Moths and Men and The Three-Pound Universe

As surely as the telling of stories must have begun not with the first hunter but with the first mother, this collection of the stories of mothers and daughters reaches to something deep inside that is very ancient. Though written by mothers and daughters, the reflections reach to our common humanity and the web that weaves us all together, which is, at its heart, maternal. is, at its heart, maternal.

The Rt. Rev. Stacy F. Sauls
Bishop of Lexington

These stories are so heartfelt and wise, you are propelled from one to the next. Once you pick this book up, you will find it very hard to put down.

Janine Roberts
coauthor, Rituals for Our Times

Miracles occur within every story of Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul: the miracles of birth and resulting transformation for the mothers; ordinary acts of love seen with new eyes as memories emerge; daughters coming into their own with the encouragement and blessing of their mothers; mothers deepening through the gift of their daughters love, attention and, sometimes, pestering. This beautiful collection is a gift of hope and transformation that spills over into the readers own life. Even for those of us whose mother-daughter relationships were less than perfect, we are healed in the reading.