Unmasking the Wounded Mother

Being raised by a wounded mother is a slow unraveling, a starvation of the soul. It hollows you out in places you don’t even recognize until much later, when you're grown and aching for something you can’t name. I do not know what it means to have been nurtured by someone who was whole, who was healing, who had the capacity to pour into me without resentment or depletion. That was not my reality.

Mother WoundTonesha SyllaApril 4, 2025wounded mother, mother, mother wound

8 Tips on Surviving Motherhood as an Empath Pt. 2

Mothering is a bigger job than we all expect it to be. All we know about it is that most of us grew up with a mother, and I believe that we begin as young adults gauging our readiness for motherhood based on how prepared we believed our mothers to be upon initiation. And, I think that is where we falter.

Motherhood, Mom LifeTonesha SyllaSeptember 7, 2021surviving motherhood, mother, journey in motherhoodComment