The Girl in the Red Boots is a touching, honest look at a woman's relationship with her mother as well as a self-help book for those of us who are daughters struggling with our mothers. It's so easy to write our parents off as bad parents without really understanding the complexity of them as real people beyond being parents, and Judith Ruskay Rabinor does a lovely job of making that point. She takes us through her personal and professional journey, using stories and lessons that she's learned from her clients. I deeply appreciate what she had to say with this book, and as someone with a complicated relationship with my mom, I'm hoping that I can enact some of the activities named and find some peace for myself.

The mother daughter relationship is the most complicated one out there and therapist, Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD has made it her professional mission to work with these dynamics. During a mother daughter workshop that she is conducting, Rabinor has a flashback of a childhood trauma, leading her to move forward and heal from her own complicated mother-daughter history.
As a fellow therapist, working in the same field as Judith Rabinor I enjoyed the duality of the client sessions she shares, as she herself is working through similar issues with her mother. Ultimately this is a book about grief, resilience, love and healing that I thoroughly enjoyed. Dr, Rabinor's knowledge of the topic, her vulnerability in telling her own healing story, and sharing techniques she uses in therapy sessions, made it an overall satisfying read.
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Psychotherapy is always interesting to me so this book was really up my alley. The author writes of her own experiences with her mother as well as some of her therapy clients' relationship with their own mother. Part of this book had to do with anorexia and bulimia,which added a whole new layer of issues within the mother-daugher relationship. This memoir is very well written.

Dr. Judith Rabinor is well-known and respected in both the fields of eating disorders and family therapy, In this new book, she ties together her decades of practice and her own life experiences. It is very well written and includes guided imagery along with case histories that parallel her own family experiences. Extremely thought provoking and highly recommended for mothers and daughters to read and then discuss together.