The Forgive Her; She Was 16 Experience

Participants will sign in for the day in order to receive their items, enroll in The Daughter Connect, schedule their therapeutic/coaching session, select meals and workshops for the day followed by a tour to the safe zone for the day.  

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Daughters and Mothers will be given pre-programmed headphones with learning lesson, affirmation, journal topic and music options to play while writing their first entry. Participants will remove all external barriers they arrived with prohibiting them from engaging in this experience at all levels: makeup, restricting clothes, uncomfortable shoes, silence phones etc. All clinicians will have the opportunity to introduce themselves followed by all mothers and daughters.

Participants will engage in their first clinician led workshop of their choice: 

• Define the Mother-Daughter Relationship 
• Define the values of motherhood 
• Changing the narrative of family
• Permission to end obligated family ties
• What Has Working to Not Become My Mother Done to Me? 

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A Panel of 5 Daughters representing each generation will be asked questions and speak on the topic of being motherless.

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Daughters and mothers will select an image that reflects their ideal mother-daughter relationship for painting. They will be given a non-alcoholic cocktail to match their mother-daughter choice. Participants will split up by age group to paint and eat lunch together. While having lunch each age group will choose and discuss an affirmation that resonates with them as motherless daughters to keep and utilize as a coping skill.

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Participants will engage in their second clinician led workshop of their choice: 

• Sister x Sister: Your Mother Was Not My Mother 
• Grandmother Guilt 
• Mom It’s Not Too Late to Heal 
• Grieving a Living Mother 
• Your Trauma is Valid 

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A Panel of 5 Mothers representing each generation will be asked questions and speak on the topic of being motherless while raising daughters.

Author: Jazzmine Marie Nolan

Title: Don’t Miss the Lessons While Living as a Motherless Daughter

It is easy to consume ourselves with what we don’t have instead of focusing on what we do when we’re without our mothers. However, it’s time to learn from the lessons behind grieving a living mother so we too can LIVE, LAUGH & LOVE genuinely.

All participants experiencing anger will smash glass items with our partner organization while identifying the root to this emotion. Immediately following a mother or daughter from each age group will recite their selected affirmation from their luncheon and a group hug will be facilitated following each reading.

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