Sarah McLachlan says therapy helped rebuild bond with oldest daughter

Sarah McLachlan, 58, says therapy helped repair her bond with her oldest daughter. She realized the way she was communicating with her daughter was only making her feel worse about herself. "It's funny because I thought so clearly in my own mind that I was being the antithesis of my mother," she said.

McLachlan described taking a tougher approach to parenting than she intended. "I would have been softer on her in a different way. I was a hard ass," she told Amy Poehler, and recalled that her older daughter would sometimes shut down or lash out when things got hard.

Family counseling made clear her daughter was experiencing a lot of anxiety: "I looked at that and went, 'How do I help you with this? How do we move past this, because the world out there is scary and big, and you have to have some grit, and you have to do hard things so that you know you can,'" McLachlan said.

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