Sarah McLachlan

And all this came out.

We did family systems counseling.

Yeah.

Peeling back all those layers of the onion.

Yeah.

The way I was communicating to her was just making her feel shitty about herself instead of building her up, which was completely the opposite of what I thought I was doing.

So I had to eat a lot of humble pie and take stock and go, okay, look, I want a relationship with my kid.

Yeah.

I need to learn how to communicate differently with her.

And in doing so, she also got to take some responsibility for the way she was reacting and recognizing that that's not where it's coming from.

Anyway, so it was a long process, but it was beautiful and powerful.

And we have such an open, loving relationship now because of that.

We all live in constant judgment.

You know, it's like, you know, you watch people look at you out of the corner of the eye when you let your kid cry in the grocery store.

grocery store floor.

That's right.

It's like, oh my God, corral that kid.

You're a bad parent because you're doing this or you're doing that or not doing this.

It's like, again, just constant judgment.

Yes, me too.