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Mothering & Daughtering

WHERE MOMS AND TEEN (AND PRETEEN) DAUGHTERS THRIVE, NOT JUST SURVIVE

We’ve got cool news for you about your daughter.

Your preteen or teen daughter actually wants and needs you to be more connected, not less.

(We promise, we asked her, well, a lot of girls her age.)

But she also wants to connect in a different way. Even if she doesn’t know how to say it.

Welcome to a new approach to mother-daughter relationships where thriving, not just surviving, is the new normal.

If you’re a busy mother who wants a real, soulful relationship with her preteen or teen daughter, you’re in the right place.

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It’s a Relationship Revolution Between Two Covers

Mothering & Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years  

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“If these challenges [between mother and daughter] are a generational thing, Sil has surely broken the pattern with her own daughter.” 

— Jane Fonda

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Who are we?

We are Eliza and Sil, a mother-daughter dynamic duo and co-founders of Mothering & Daughtering. 

We co-authored our best-selling book Mothering & Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years (which is also an audiobook that we narrated), and we taught thousands of mothers and daughters in live sold-out workshops across the country.

We no longer teach workshops together - but our body of work is preserved in our book. Find out what we are up to these days on our ABOUT page.

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Sil REad, Formerly Reynolds

Sil now brings decades of embodied experience to her current work in feminine psychology and spiritual growth.

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Eliza alloway, Formely REynolds

Eliza now guides the next generation through Badass Girls: a bold, heartfelt space for teen self-expression.