EP 436: Healing the Mother Wound: Where to Start

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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Mother’s Day is around the corner, so I wanted to address this painful topic of “healing the mother wound.”

Inside of this episode I talk about

What is the mother wound
How do we start to heal our mother wounds and choose differently
I share my own experience with coping with a mother wound and what has worked for me

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Episode Quotes:

"I constantly felt like a burden."

"My decision to become a psychologist was both a trauma response and a mission."

"We have to intentionally break the generational cycles of trauma.” "

Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction and Personal Experience

04:20 The Impact of the Mother Wound

08:58 Career Choices and Trauma Response

14:13 Becoming the 'Good Enough Mother'

24:08 Conclusion and Call to Action

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Morgan Anderson,
0:05.6	psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL
0:10.4	relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Ware Connoisseur. the into the next level of your life. Each week, two episodes will air
0:24.0	featuring expert advice, live coaching,
0:27.0	and tips showing you exactly how to improve your life
0:30.0	and attract a healthy relationship.
0:32.0	You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and love.
0:36.2	Buckle up and Let's Get Vulnerable.
0:50.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable Podcast. It's your host, Dr. Morgan, and this episode is a vulnerable one. It's on my heart because it's the month of May, and this is something that comes up for me every year.
0:58.8	I know May is coming, and what is in May, Mother's Day.
1:05.0	And so many of us have a complicated relationship
1:10.6	with Mother's Day.
1:12.1	And I figured I am not the only one. There are lots of people who are amazing
1:18.9	listeners to this show who would benefit from discussing the mother wound, how do we work on repairing mother wounds,
1:28.6	what does it look like to internalize a new healthy mother figure what is the healthy model for mothering and I just I just want to talk about it let's just be honest and talk about it right For me, I experience losing my mom at a young age.
1:48.0	And some of you know the whole story if you've listened to past episodes there have been one or two where I've gone into detail the reality that happened for me was my mom had a traumatic brain injury that left her essentially in a vegetative state.
2:09.3	She was not able to be herself, obviously. She was essentially a shell of a human. She was in a physical body, but she was not there.
2:23.2	She couldn't do anything for herself, walk, talk, feed herself, anything.
2:29.7	She was in a bed. And as you can can imagine being six years old seeing a parent go through this. It was
2:39.2	horribly confusing, horribly traumatic and I remember the period of time where I had the belief that she was coming back.
2:50.0	My adults in my life, my dad, obviously they wanted to protect me and care for me and they would say things
2:57.6	like she's gonna get better and I have these vivid memories of going to the hospital and feeling horribly uncomfortable
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