Healing Mother Daughter Tensions During the Holidays With Leslie and Lindsey Glass

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As the holidays approach, it’s time to plan family gatherings — and that can often mean stress and conflict. In this episode, host Paula Felps welcomes mother-daughter duo Leslie and Lindsey Glass, authors of the Mother Daughter Relationship Makeover Workbook to explore the emotional complexities of family dynamics during the holidays. Drawing from their personal journey and professional work in recovery and relational healing, they unpack why the season often amplifies unresolved tensions — and how to navigate them with compassion, boundaries, and grace. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to set loving boundaries before holiday gatherings to reduce conflict and anxiety. Why childhood memories can distort present-day interactions — and how to reframe them. Tips for navigating grief, crisis, or estrangement during the holiday season.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 547 of Live Happy Now.
0:08.5	With the holidays approaching, it's time for us to think of gathering with family.
0:12.7	And not everyone is excited about that.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by the best-selling mother and daughter
0:19.1	duel of Leslie and Lindsay Glass,
0:21.5	who are here to talk about how we can make those family gatherings a little more harmonious.
0:26.7	In their latest release, the mother-daughter relationship makeover workbook for lasting change,
0:31.9	they walk readers through the exercises that can help heal that often tricky relationship.
0:37.4	This week, they're here to talk about some of those principles and practices and tell us how to
0:42.0	make them work for us this holiday season.
0:44.5	Let's have a listen.
0:46.2	Lindsay and Leslie, thank you so much for coming back on Live Happy Now.
0:50.2	Thank you so much.
0:51.2	It's our pleasure.
0:52.1	We're so happy to see you again, Paula.
0:55.0	Oh, well, since people are not going to see your faces, I want each of you to introduce yourself.
1:01.0	I am Leslie the mom. And I am Lindsay. I am the daughter.
1:08.1	Terrific. And we've talked before, this is a huge topic, mother-daughter conflict.
1:13.0	It's such a universal thing. And it's a great time to talk about it because the holidays, even though
1:17.7	fabulous time of year, but it can bring up a lot of unresolved conflict. So here in Live Happy,
1:23.4	we're going to be talking about a lot of different holiday topics over the next few weeks, but we really wanted to focus today on that mother-daughter relationship.
1:31.2	And my first big question for you is, why do the holidays just amplify the tensions within
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