#185: Grieving The Mother You Never Got (But Deserved)

The Inner Child Podcast

Gloria Zhang, MA

Ptsd, Attachment Styles, Commitment, Self-improvement, Childhood Trauma, Health & Fitness, Therapist, Inner Child Healing, Education, C-ptsd, Codependency, Alternative Health, Self Love, Dating, Asian Canadian, Relationships, Codependent Relationships, Mental Health

4.8 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Is it normal to still feel so triggered by your mother, even years or decades later?In this deep-dive episode, we explore the missing piece of your healing: Grief. Grief is not just what happens when someone dies. We also grieve the timelines, futures, and life we never got. And the Mother Wound is the gap between what you need as a child, and what your mother could provide. ❤️ Join my upcoming online retreat: Mother Wound Online Retreat 🎉 >> Get Earlybird tickets before they sell...

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0:00.0	Is it normal to feel so triggered by your mom, even now, even years or decades that have gone past to still feel those deep, painful feelings when it comes to your mom?
0:13.6	Well, whether your mother was absent or a narcissist or someone who was critical or even abusive in some way. Today's episode is actually about
0:23.8	the important but often forgotten stage of grief when it comes to truly healing a mother wound.
0:33.1	So today we're going to dive right into why that's so important and why it's perceived so
0:38.5	differently from regular grief. We're going to discuss what it takes to truly heal from a
0:45.3	mother wound and all the emotions that are stuck inside you. And if you in particular are dealing
0:51.7	with mother wounds, you'll want to listen to the end of this episode for an exciting announcement.
0:57.3	It's going to help you a lot.
0:59.6	And it might be just the answer that you've been looking for to feeling more free from the suffering and the rage and all the pent-up feelings right after this intro.
1:13.2	Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast.
1:15.6	Now with 2 million downloads, I help high achievers recover from painful relationships
1:20.2	and childhood trauma.
1:22.2	Let's heal together on Season 2 of the Inner Child Podcast.
1:27.5	Besties, welcome back to the Inner Child podcast.
1:30.9	The reason we are bringing back some mother wound topics is that at the time of recording
1:36.1	this, it is May of 2006 and May being Mother Day month, tends to be a month that brings up a lot of those thoughts and feelings
1:47.1	when it comes to your mom or the lack of a mother that you've had. My name's Gloria Zang,
1:54.5	award-winning therapist, author, coach, and host of this podcast. I'm glad that you're here. I hope you're doing well. And by the
2:03.6	end of this episode, I hope you'll be feeling even more better and more clear. Because this
2:09.9	episode is for anyone who's ever thought to themselves. Maybe my mom just did her best. My mom was physically there, but she was
2:21.0	emotionally just completely absent or not in tune with me at all. Maybe you felt guilty about
2:28.1	being upset because technically she sacrificed so much for you and she reminds you of that fact every time that you see
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