Surviving Ophelia, Cheryl Dellasega, PhD
Surviving Ophelia, Cheryl Dellasega, PhD
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Surviving Ophelia
Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years

Author: Cheryl Dellasega, PhD

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2011


Synopsis

Insightful, heartfelt, and hopeful, Surviving Ophelia is a mustread for any mother of a teenage daughter who has ever felt disappointed, alone or afraid. Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to cope with all that they must do for their daughters. To provide the community that these women so desperately crave, Cheryl Dellasega has written Surviving Ophelia, a book of profound wisdom and compassion. Dellasegas own story of raising her teenage daughters is punctuated by the collective experience of hundreds of other mothers from all walks of life who have been there, in the trenches, experiencing and chronicling the daily joys and trials of raising their teenage girls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bernadette on August 05, 2014

Look for my story included in this book, Daddy Died, Leaving a Wife and Daughter. The book is filled with mother- daughter relationships and the many challenges both sides face. The mother-daughter relationship is said to be the most complicated of all relationships, it can offer the greatest reward......more

Goodreads review by Lenny on March 22, 2019

I had such mixed feelings about this book. I liked some of the stories in it that were from other mothers of daughters with Eating Disorders, but I "disliked" the author's voice and totally rooted for "Ophelia." In other words, I had ZERO sympathy for the author who seemed entiredly self-serving. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on December 28, 2020

So when I was a angsty teen in the early 2000s, there was a book that I LOVED called Ophelia Speaks. In the text, a girl (relatively the same age as I was at the time) put together all sorts of submissions about growing up female. I resonated SO HARD with the heartfelt essays that girls from all ov......more

Goodreads review by Ariana on February 19, 2025

Makes me grateful for my children ❤️ It is very outdated, but some issues stand the test of time.......more

Goodreads review by Donna on March 10, 2017

Lots of information, no real answers. So now what?......more