Sarah McLachlan

deeply more powerful because of the challenges and the struggles that we've been through for so many years as mother and firstborn daughter.

There's so many things I could say about that.

I wish I knew what I know now to be able to go back without feeling regret.

Um...

I would have been softer on her in a different way.

I was a hard ass.

And it's funny because I thought so clearly in my own mind that I was being the antithesis of my mother.

And I looked at the way she parented and I thought, I'm going to do everything completely different.

And then her words come spewing out of your mouth in a moment of it.

anger and frustration.

You're like, oh my God, I can't believe I did that.

But I just, you know, she was undiagnosed.

We thought she had ADHD.

And, you know, when things got hard, this wall would go up and she'd just rage and be so frustrated.

And so, you know, I looked at that and going, how do we, how do I help you with this?

How do we move past this?

Because the world out there is scary and big and you have to have some grit and you have to do hard things so that you know you can.

So I was tough.

And,

What we didn't realize is that it was actually anxiety.