All right, gentlemen, welcome back to the men talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

Have you ever felt like you can't seem to get it right with women or that your needs

don't seem to matter to them or you just feel small and insignificant or there's like this strange almost

push-pull dynamic where you really really really want women but you don't trust them

you're afraid of them and you kind of all messed up around them these are just some examples

of having a mother wound, right? Dr. Robert

Glover and Noammer Mr. Nice Guy talked about this a lot, but the Nice Guy is really a result of

having some type of core mother wound. And today we're going to dive deep into the mother wound.

We're going to talk about what creates it. We're going to talk about how it shows up in your

life. And then we're going to talk about what you can do to move through it. We're going to talk about how it shows up in your life, and then we're

to talk about what you can do to move through it. So with all that said, let's dive straight in.

Some of this was really popularized with Carl Jung. He talked about the great mother and the mother

archetype. He also talked about something called the devouring mother,

which is actually where we're going to start. So how do these mother wounds form? Well, we all have,

and again, this is Jung's frame, we all have an archetype baked into us of the great mother,

of this sort of idealized version of what we need from mom, what we desire

from mom. And those are some pretty straightforward things. There's safety, trust, nurturing,

care, compassion, you know, being able to go to mom when you're hurt or scared or wounded,

those types of things, right? Mom is really meant to be

the womb of safety and the place of safety that every child goes to, but specifically for young boys.

And in doing this, you as a child learn that women are safe, you know, the world is a safe place,

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