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This book is a terrific contribution for those among us who want to understand their career and life path from a historical, cutlural, familial, and critical life events point of view. The narrative approaches to understanding our decision-making processes are the newest wave of career development practice. Sally Gelardin, through personal reflection and innovative lifework activities, helps us to use our past history and current circumstances to create a vision for our future.

Robert Chope, Ph.D.,
Professor, San Francisco State University.
Author, Family Matters: The influence of the family in career decision making.

The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success is a narrative of one woman's creative journey through her own career transformation told within the context of her relationship with her college-age daughter. Dr. Sally Gelardin's story shows us, by her own courageous example, that any transitional experience affects all aspects of our lives and that career development, in fact, IS life development.

Joan P. Avis, Ph.D.
Professor, University of San Francisco.
Co-author, with Susan Evans, of The Women Who Broke All the Rules: How the Choices of a Generation Changed Our Lives

It's quite a compelling, one-of-a-kind piece of work. The three words that come most immediately to mind are engaging, lyrical, and illuminating. Readers will appreciate Dr. Sally Gelardin's searing honesty and full-hearted compassion, as well as the livable wisdom captured in the end of chapter exercises. Her willingness to share - both her own story and her efforts to help the reader give voice to her own - speaks of an incredible generosity of spirit that is reflected on every page.

Maureen White, Ed.D.