OUR JOURNEYS SO FAR
Breaking the Cycle, Together.
We’re a real mother-daughter duo who got determined to do it differently.
You see, like you, we struggled; in fact, pretty much every mother and daughter we knew struggled to connect in the teen years. Sil had a really difficult relationship with her mom when she was a teen: they stopped connecting, and stopped talking.
It was so hurtful.
When Eliza became a preteen and teen– and the eye rolls, frosty silence, and frustrated ‘mommmmmm’ angst began– Sil (1) panicked, and then (2) got real about it, and knew she had to do something differently. She was determined to break the pattern with her own daughter.
Mothering & Daughtering was born out of our need for a new approach.
We taught our radical stance from our lived experience: that it’s totally possible for mothers and daughters to be close– even, and especially, during the preteen and teen years.
THIS IS US NOW
Eliza alloway, Formerly REynolds
Eliza is now 34 years-old and a mother herself! She has created an amazing community for preteen and teen girls called Badass Girls.
Advocate, Educator, BadAss
Eliza is now 34 years-old and a mother herself! She has created an amazing community for preteen and teen girls called BadAss Girls.
Her writing, speaking and teaching has called B.S. on the cultural stereotype that teen girls are selfish, mean, vapid, and image-obsessed. Instead, she gives voice to, celebrates, and creates spaces for teen girls’ sensitivity, wacky weird passions, feisty comebacks, fierce truths, tender hearts, sensual embodiment, and full-out, real-talk, whole, imperfect, ever-evolving self expression.
Eliza was trained as a Peer Educator for Planned Parenthood in High School, and was a consultant for Eve Ensler, (“Vagina Monologues,”) on her book for teenage girls: “I Am an Emotional Creature” (so you could say she specializes in making awkward & important topics cool & normal). Eliza graduated from Brown University with a degree in Gender & Sexuality Studies, and is a certified Qoya movement teacher.
“If these challenges [between mother and daughter] are a generational thing, Sil has surely broken the pattern with her own daughter.”
— Jane Fonda
Sil REad, Formerly Reynolds
Sil now brings decades of embodied experience to her current work in feminine psychology and spiritual growth.
wisdom, lineage, and transformation
Sil is now 70 years-old and a grandmother.
She leads Marion Woodman-inspired programs where she teaches the transformational power of feminine archetypes and how to work with dreams. Woodman was the Jungian wise elder, mentor, and spiritual ‘mother’ who she studied with for many years.
Sil brings 45 years experience to her work now as a Jungian coach and teacher: experience as a women’s health nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, workshop leader, and Mothering & Daughtering coach. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Women’s Studies. She completed Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms certification training in dreamwork, archetypal psychology, and the art and science of listening to the wisdom of the body.