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.
Read MoreA belief is only something you have consistently heard or have told yourself many times. So when you have had a parent that has been highly negative about your ideas, choices, or future plans, at some point, you have no choice but to believe it too. We self-sabotage ourselves when we don't have genuine sources of support.
Read MoreIn trauma, many adverse conditions and characteristics control the daily life of this unhealed soul. Many people can relate to Munchhausen's Syndrome as an extreme example of the wounded mother, but this is not the only way this persona interacts. Certainly, unhealed wounded souls negatively affect the people around them. But the wounded mother stands out because there is a severe impact on the children she bears.
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