827 Why Women Don't Talk About Their Mothers (And What It Costs Them)
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We talk about everything now. Trauma, therapy, childhood, the things that happened to us, and the things we are still working through. Almost everything is fair game.
Except this one.
When the relationship with your mother is a painful one, the cultural agreement is that you keep it to yourself. On today's episode, I'm sharing why that's a bad idea and what you can do to break the taboo.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:04.6 | We are living in a time where nothing is sacred, right? |
| 0:08.8 | People talk about absolutely everything. |
| 0:11.8 | And a lot of times they do it publicly. |
| 0:13.6 | They talk about their therapy. |
| 0:15.2 | They talk about their childhood. |
| 0:16.8 | They talk about their trauma. |
| 0:18.3 | They talk about their boss. |
| 0:19.4 | They talk about their marriage. |
| 0:20.9 | Everything except this. |
| 0:24.7 | So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about mother wounds. |
| 0:29.7 | Why? |
| 0:30.8 | We don't talk about it. |
| 0:32.5 | And what is the cost for not talking about it? |
| 0:36.6 | Because there's lots of good reasons why we don't talk about it. |
| 0:39.4 | Society for one. |
| 0:42.0 | But I'm hoping to inspire you today to give yourself permission to talk about it if you indeed |
| 0:48.1 | do identify with having a mother one. |
| 0:50.4 | But before we get into it, I want to take a moment to say thank you for being here. |
| 0:53.9 | I love hanging out with you. You know, I do. I appreciate just being somehow in your life, even if you're just taking me on a hike or whatever you're doing. So if you love the show, if you want to support it, it helps me so much. If you rate, review, or subscribe on Apple Podcast, that would be great. And I want to say thank you to Karen Gou for this five-star review. |
| 1:14.6 | She said, review or subscribe on Apple Podcast. That would be great. And I want to say thank you to Karen Gou |
| 1:12.3 | for this five-star review. She says the name of the review is staying in my lane. I truly believe |
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