In this episode I'm talking about another impactful wounding, this time it's the mother wound. It will come as no surprise to regular listeners that I have personal experience of this too. I talk about how we all have a mother wound, at a personal level, to some degree and at the society level all women have this wound as the patriarchy, which largely finds women "less than" their male counterparts, distorts the mother-daughter relationship and leads mothers to help their daughters survive in a world where women are not valued as much as men. Discovering this was a tough thing to take in but it also made perfect sense to me. It's an interesting time to be a woman, I think, as patriarchal beliefs are showing themselves to be dysfunctional and they don't work for women or men. Times are changing, albeit slowly.
I talk more about the mother wound from the personal level and how it isn't just people like me, who had an alcoholic mother, that experience this wound but many other people for whom it is a less obvious wound. If you feel low after seeing your mother, feel pressure to speak to her or spend time with her or you dread seeing her, these are all signals that something is off. I also talk about that no matter how hard we try to change ourselves, make ourselves small, be compliant or try to please her, it we will never be enough as it's her wound to heal not ours. It becomes our wound too if we get stuck in it.
This was a powerful episode for me to record and I hope you take away that your life is yours to live to it's fullest potential rather than playing small to appease a mother wound, if that is what is happening.
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Production: Jay Herbert
Original music: Jay Herbert and Alex Ware
