I Hated My Daughter

What if the person you're trying so hard to change is revealing something in you?

I thought I was protecting my daughter. I thought I was trying to keep her from making the same mistakes I made.

But somewhere between fear, control, disappointment, and love, I had to confront a harder truth:

I wasn't only fighting who she was becoming. I was fighting parts of myself I had never fully faced.

I Hated My Daughter is a deeply personal memoir about a mother and daughter, but the story underneath it is about all of us. About the ways our past can follow us into the people we love, the difference between protection and control, and what can happen when we finally become willing to look inward.

This isn't a story about learning how to fix someone else.

It's about what I had to face in myself to learn how to love differently.