Psychology Today | 18.02.2026 03:03
I talk a lot about the power of focusing on and rather than or in my work on maternal ambivalence. It’s the idea that we don't need to limit our thinking and our feelings to the binary by splitting and constraining ourselves to one way of being or the other. As mothers, at all stages of our mothering, when we open ourselves up so we can appreciate all our feelings, the light and the dark ones, and when we recognize the difficult ones as an opportunity for growth, we can learn about ourselves and our children.
