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★A psychology class for the growth and independence of women by a relationship expert who says, “True self-love begins with knowing one’s mother.”

The relationship of a mother and daughter is the closest in the world, so at first glance, it seems peaceful. But the world of these two women is one where they hurt each other despite loving each other, they are affectionate yet frustrated, and grateful yet resentful. Simply put, it is a delicate and complicated world intertwined with love and hatred. The mother-daughter relationship dominates the entire lives of the two people, mother and daughter, but it particularly has a significant influence on how the daughter dates, marries, raises her children, and engages in human relationships. So, when they have trouble in this relationship, it manifests itself as various life problems.
In this book, the writer confesses how she unexpectedly encountered her relationship with her late mother while searching for the cause of severe insomnia from which she had suffered since having a midlife crisis. She explores the relationship with her mother, which had started off on the wrong foot, and into the general emotional emptiness that sprouted from that relationship. This experience later drew her to the general mother-daughter relationship and led to her insights on how the mother-daughter conflicts were expressed in Korean sentiment and culture. The writer diagnoses a wide range of problems that commonly exists between a mother and daughter: from the mother’s illusion that her daughter would naturally stand in solidarity with her just because she also is a woman and the invisible violence this exerts, to bad communication methods, such as the mother’s double entendre, which confuses the daughter, and the gaslighting that is tacitly conducted, and finally how all this is then repeated and passed down to the daughter’s daughter (son). She also presents clear solutions to resolve such problems, like keeping a certain distance between mother and daughter—ways for them to become independent so that they both can be healthy and ways to communicate emotions. The book presents solutions and affectionately cheers and sympathizes with all women, who are at once a daughter and a mother, in the process of discovering what it means to be themselves and understanding the meaning of true self-love.

Kim Ji-youn studied family therapy in graduate school. She caught the public’s attention with her lectures, a combination of clear solutions and advice that people deeply connected with on TV shows, such as and . Her social media account and YouTube channel have attracted a total of 40 million views. She has written a number of books including If I Say It, Things Will Get Complicated, If I Don’t, I’ll Explode and Speak, Be Sad, Love. She currently runs the Good Dating Institute USTORY and gives lectures on emotional communication in the workplace, and between spouses and lovers