194. The Mother Wound Cuts Deep
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this thought-provoking episode, we dive deep into the intricate and multi-layered subject of the Mother wound. Despite the societal idealisation of mothers as kind, loving, and supportive figures, the reality is more nuanced for many women. Often, our mothers struggled to fulfil this role due to their own challenging upbringings, past abuse, or neglect. Michelle Gomez, a leader in helping women heal from the Mother wound, shares her story of growing up with a mother who treated her as a utility rather than a daughter. She was valuable when she was useful. She was thrown out of home when she dared disagree with her mom. Michelle kept her struggles with her Mom a secret for years but when she finally told the truth she received an outpouring from women who were silently enduring similar issues with their mothers, leaving them feeling isolated. Michelle specialises in working with Latina, Black, Indigenous, and women of color, but her insights will resonate deeply with all of us. Join us as we explore the complexities and healing processes surrounding the Mother wound. You can find Michelle here on her WEBSITE and via INSTAGRAM
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| 0:00.0 | If we're talking about mothers that occurs at you, throws things at you, raises a hand to you, |
| 0:06.0 | expects you to take care of your 40-year-old brother, still expects you to pay bills at her house, |
| 0:13.2 | you know, stuff like that. There's some extensive situations where we have no choice. It's either |
| 0:20.3 | be abused, manipulated, and taken advantage of, or not. And when a woman is healed enough, |
| 0:27.1 | and loves her family, but loves herself more, then she's going to choose herself first, |
| 0:32.6 | and she will go no contact. If it's an absolute. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me, I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born, we arrive here as pure and |
| 0:49.2 | perfect souls, and the direction our life takes from that moment is deeply connected to what our |
| 0:56.3 | parents bring to our lives. And what our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what |
| 1:03.1 | their parents brought to their lives, and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved |
| 1:10.5 | connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you, what makes you the absolutely |
| 1:19.3 | unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for the soul, they can connect us, |
| 1:26.9 | and they can change the world. And so in this podcast, I'm listening to beautiful souls |
| 1:33.4 | sharing their story. What happened to them, how they got through, and how they have healed and |
| 1:39.9 | thrived despite everything to arrive right here in this moment. Content warning, if you are triggered |
| 1:48.8 | by the themes of this podcast, please seek a help line in your city. |
| 1:58.5 | Hello my beautiful friends, hey everyone, I hope you're good. The mother wound is one of my favorite |
| 2:06.8 | topics because it's so complex and layered. And I'm a mum, I'm a daughter, my mother was not |
| 2:14.8 | perfect, I am not perfect. And I see women every day struggling in their relationships with |
| 2:22.7 | their mothers. And we are 100% taught from birth that mothers are kind, they're loving and they're |
| 2:30.4 | caring, they want the best for us. They're there to support us. But this is not true for so many |
| 2:39.4 | women. Often because our mothers didn't have good role models themselves or because they were |
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