Elaine Heffner, LCSW, Ed.D.

Elaine Heffner is a psychotherapist and parent educator in private practice in New York City, and a Senior Lecturer of Education in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Heffner is the author of MOTHERING: The Emotional Experience of Motherhood After Freud and Feminism, published by Doubleday and Anchor Press. Dr. Heffner is a mother and grandmother.

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You can’t be a perfect mother. So be a ‘good enough’ mother.

Children are resilient and their emotional responses in the moment are not a measure of how good you are as a mother.