Nourishing The Mother

How do you know when motherhood has become a little toxic, enmeshed and smothering, and is now preventing yours and your child’s future growth? It begins with breaking the fantasy of the fully supportive mother and pulling out of the pit the imperfect, challenging mother. The challenging mother inoculates your child from life-long subordination - so how about we love her?The lean-back skillset is a tangible you can follow along to, and break the shackles of your own subordination to the perfect mother.In this episode we discuss:How you can do the lean-back skillsetSeeing your patterns that create smotheringLosing your own identity in your children and how that robs them of individuationRepulsion as a vehicle to coming back into connection with our true selvesLetting go of the perfect mother who always walks in connection and celebration of her childHow shaky your worth is when it’s wrapped up in how you perform as a motherCreating narratives for yourself outside of the ‘Hallmark’ motherReconciling your own fa