Memoir
IF YOU WERE MY DAUGHTER: healing an unmothered heart
From bestselling children's author Marianne Richmond comes a powerful memoir about overcoming a mother's emotional neglect and finding the courage to reclaim the story of your life.
If You Were My Daughter is a story of learning to hear your own voice, of one daughter's return to wholeness, and ultimately, a story of accepting that, despite all hope and longing, a mother's "best I could" can still fall far too short. Most of all, Marianne Richmond illuminates how the stories we're born into shape the ones we tell about ourselves―and reminds us that we have the powerful permission to develop a new relationship with what is difficult in our lives, to fully choose and embody who we are meant to be.
Editorial Reviews
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“In her beautiful memoir, Richmond bravely finds her way through a legacy of emotional trauma, pulling us into her courageous, tender heart while bringing us closer to our own…a stunning story.”
Kelly McDaniel, LPC, author of Mother Hunger
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“Marianne Richmond’s early life was shaped by trauma and obfuscation, but in If You Were My Daughter she explores the covenant of motherhood and―with clarity, compassion and wit―reclaims her own story.”
Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle
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“Marianne’s portrayal of epilepsy and the impact of seizures is spot on. Her story resonates with what others in the epilepsy community are saying: epilepsy is more than seizures. It’s seizures and all the other "stuff" that comes with it―fear, stigma, anxiety. Others will identify and benefit from this story―both those with epilepsy and those that love someone with epilepsy.”
Vicki Kopplin, Executive Director, Hemophilia Foundation of Minnesota / Dakotas and former Executive Director of The Minnesota Epilepsy Foundation