The "Strong Black Mother" Is a Crown of Thorns 👑
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It can feel like a mystery at first because the adult daughter tries many different approaches including exploring shared interests, being very accommodating, offering to be more available or trying to be generous in time, money, or emotional energy. Often, none of it produces the results that the adult-daughter is hoping for because 1) the daughter is doing all or most of the work and 2) because the mother may not be emotionally mature enough to have the kind of meaningful connection you are lo
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It can feel like a mystery at first because the adult daughter tries many different approaches including exploring shared interests, being very accommodating, offering to be more available or trying to be generous in time, money, or emotional energy. Often, none of it produces the results that the adult-daughter is hoping for because 1) the daughter is doing all or most of the work and 2) because the mother may not be emotionally mature enough to have the kind of meaningful connection you are lo
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Healing the Mother Wound requires us to develop the courage to sit with our feelings, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. This is a journey from resistance to surrender, and ultimately, to healing. Our inner child often clings to familiar pain, preferring known discomfort over the unknown. But to heal, we must face these feelings with courage and compassion. Sitting with our emotions allows us to understand and integrate our past traumas. It’s through this process that we begin to transform
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Healing the Mother Wound requires us to develop the courage to sit with our feelings, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. This is a journey from resistance to surrender, and ultimately, to healing. Our inner child often clings to familiar pain, preferring known discomfort over the unknown. But to heal, we must face these feelings with courage and compassion. Sitting with our emotions allows us to understand and integrate our past traumas. It’s through this process that we begin to transform
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👉 This is due to how children interpret moments of maternal abandonment or rejection. Children internalize this feeling of "something wrong" as being about themselves, when the truth was that something was wrong in the environment, including a disconnect in our bond with our mothers. Left unaddressed, this unconscious belief can negatively impact all areas of our lives, because it deals with our core sense of self. To the extent that we still unconsciously believe this, we limit our ability to
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👉 This is due to how children interpret moments of maternal abandonment or rejection. Children internalize this feeling of "something wrong" as being about themselves, when the truth was that something was wrong in the environment, including a disconnect in our bond with our mothers. Left unaddressed, this unconscious belief can negatively impact all areas of our lives, because it deals with our core sense of self. To the extent that we still unconsciously believe this, we limit our ability to
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For survivors healing from trauma, the healthy grieving process is NOT the same thing as being "stuck in victim-mode." This can be a slippery slope and there's an important nuance here. You're not "just being a victim" when you grieve. That's a dismissive judgement that can come from others or even ourselves. It can be a defense against feeling painful feelings. In order to fully heal, we have to face the truth that we were victims at one time as children. Otherwise we'll stay in some measure of
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An emotionally immature mother will unconsciously convince you that your right to separate feelings and experiences is a form of attack and lack of gratitude to her. That's why it's common for adult children of emotionally immature mothers to feel guilt or shame when having normal, healthy things like: ⚡ Different views, perspectives or feelings from your mother ⚡ Spontaneous joy, confidence and personal autonomy ⚡ Defending or protecting yourself in the face of harm or abuse ⚡ Seeking boundarie
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💡The cost of the Mother Wound to society and the world is that generations of women bypass the chance to fulfill their potential. Women are compelled to blame themselves and to keep themselves small so as not to offend. ⁠ ⁠ Thus, the genius, power, love, and gifts of countless women are lost to the world. This is a tragedy we cannot allow to continue.⁠ ⁠ 👉The cost to our personal lives of not healing the Mother Wound means living our life indefinitely with:⁠ ⁠ • A vague sense that “There’s som
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💡What Is Self-Sabotage?⁠ ⁠ Self-sabotage is when we are excited about a goal, but we unconsciously create obstacles that directly prevent the achievement of that goal. ⁠ ⁠ For some women, taking up space, being visible, and speaking our truth may unconsciously feel like a betrayal of their mothers, and to relieve this unconscious guilt, they self-sabotage.⁠ ⁠ This pattern starts very early in our development, and that’s why it can be so insidious. Children are biologically hard-wired to seek th
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Patriarchal culture encourages codependency and enmeshment between adult daughters and their mothers. This is so normal in our culture as seen in countless movies, sitcoms, magazines, books to name a few. It benefits the toxic status quo for us to NOT become differentiated from our mothers as adult women. This codependency keeps us attenuated, fearful, doubtful of our value, shrinking, lacking confidence and terrified of offending others. The mother-daughter relationship is one of the key ways t
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As women, we may experience pressure from our mothers to remain small, silent or self-sacrificing. This pressure is often covert, unsaid, subtle and unspoken. ⁠ ⁠ This pressure from our mothers typically comes from two main sources: ⁠ ⁠ 1) the degree to which your mother has internalized limiting, patriarchal beliefs from her own mother and ⁠ 2) the level of your mother's own deprivation which comes from her being divorced from her real self. ⁠ ⁠ These two things cripple a mother’s ability to in
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Enduring Toxic Behavior is NOT a form of Love or Loyalty. Enduring and tolerating abuse can take many forms in dynamics with our mothers. A big one is being regularly put down, criticized or belittled by our mothers, including contemptuous comments about...... ❌ who you are partnered with and what they look or behave like ❌ how much you weigh or your eating habits ❌ how you parent your own children ❌ your beliefs regarding politics, spirituality, etc. It can also look like behaviors such as.....
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As we heal the Mother Wound, the shortcomings of our partners no longer cause us to question our own inherent worth, and we start to overcome our intimacy issues. ⁠ ⁠ We may feel the wound enough to activate the old narrative but only enough to further transform it, not to re-entrench it. ⁠ ⁠ When romantic hopes are dashed, we are confident in our ability to soothe ourselves through any disappointments and reap an exciting abundance of self-insight that accentuates our inner union with our deepe
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❤️ Your inner child needs to bond with your Adult-self more than your actual mother. ⁠ This is part of healing the Mother Wound. ⁠ ⁠ If we grew up with childhood trauma, the inner critic can act as a kind of stand-in for the mother. We are incentivized to listen to her, believe her negative dictums and confirm her beliefs as truth. Left unexamined, the critical voice of our mothers can be a self-fulfilling prophecy that we unwittingly carry out for decades of our lives, feeling stuck, going in c
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👉 Along the way, we will be tested in our inner mothering. ⁠ ⁠ With each test, we become more skilled as inner mothers at BEING a space within, where our child-self can fall apart in a state of messy disorganization (including grief, sadness, confusion) and come together in a new formation as a new Being, re-emerging with more fully activated and embodied energies than before. ⁠ ⁠ ❤️ The inner mother becomes a space where we can constantly die and be reborn. ⁠ ⁠ With each turn on the spiral of
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Use the challenging relationship with your mother for your growth and transformation into the woman you want to be. When we don't comply with our mothers' expectations or projections, we may experience turbulence in the relationship with our mothers, which causes stress. Here's why: 💥 Your mother may see your differing behaviors, values or norms as an affront to her personally, as she may have had to suppress in herself the very qualities that you demonstrate openly and with confidence. This of
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Your adult self may already know 100% that your mother CAN'T or won't change in into the mother you've longed for her to be. BUT.... It's usually the INNER CHILD who is unconsciously hanging on to hope and banking on the fact that your mother will one day, have a change of heart or just wake up somehow and be able to FINALLY love, see and understand you in the ways that you've needed and deserved in that relationship. This is crucial to uncover because the inner child's longings and false nostal
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🔥 Even though the shame was painful, it functioned like a temporary "life-raft,"a survival mechanism giving us a sense of hope and control when we felt unsafe as kids. BUT as adults, shame functions like an "invisible fence" keeping us confined and stuck indefinitely. 👊 The time is now to break the cycle. Are you ready? 👊 👀 It's a good time to reflect on what the Mother Wound has cost us, so that we can gather the motivation to break the cycle. Are you ready to cross the Terror Barrier from
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