What Is Restorative Mother-Child Counseling?
Moms and adult children today might feel as if they’re living on two different planets, but that doesn’t mean they can’t find their way back
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9 People Get Candid About Their Entitled Moms
“I hung up and called my mother because I wanted to end my day on an even lower note.” - Margaret Smith 9 people living in 5 different...
120+ Jeff Foster Quotes to Encourage You on Your Healing Journey
“All feelings are deeply intelligent. Get out of their way. Let them do their sacred, universal work.” - Jeff Foster What’s in this blog...
The Guide To Finding The Right Therapist To Help You Recover from Your Mother Wound
“Sometimes our first and greatest dare is asking for support.” Brené Brown What’s in this blog post? Introduction A quick note on the...
29 Brené Brown Quotes for Inner Child Work
“Our stories of worthiness—of being enough—begin in our first families.” - Brené Brown Brené Brown’s work has been a huge influence on...
7 Things You Don’t Owe Mom On Mother’s Day
“Because Mother is our first love and our needs are so strong during our early years, it’s very hard to let go of the desire to finally...
31 Jennette McCurdy Quotes About Her Mother Wound
“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them? Especially moms. They’re the most romanticized of anyone.” - Jennette...
26 Jeff Foster Quotes to Read to Your Inner Child
“At the heart of your suffering, know that you are not alone.” - Jeff Foster These words of wisdom from Jeff Foster are coming to you...
Signs You Need Boundaries With Your Mom
“Brutal honesty is never a threat to love—it is love. If love can be threatened by this kind of authentic, loving honesty, it isn’t the...
50+ bell hooks Quotes to Read to Your Inner Child
"Love and abuse cannot coexist." - bell hooks If you’re healing from any kind of childhood or relational trauma and you haven’t added the...
41 Lessons About Apologies Your Mom Didn’t Teach You
If you love psychologist Harriet Lerner as much as we do here at the Mother Wound Project, then I think you’re going to love this list of he
14 Songs You Never Knew Were About Your Mother Wound
“I am still and always will be the little girl craving the scoop and enclosure of my mother’s arms.” - Lira Kellerman Do these artists...
How To Heal The Mother Wound
"I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening—a portal opening to...
What is the Mother Wound?
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” - Paul Pearsall Many people would have you believe that all mothers enter...
A Short Collection of Truths Your Mom Should Have Taught You
“I am not cruel, only truthful.” - Sylvia Plath For those of us who know what it’s like to be raised by self-centered, entitled, absent,...
Why Talking About the Mother Wound is Actually Good for Mothers
“Why should mothers, any more than anybody else, be good?” - Jacqueline Rose Painful interactions in mother-child relationships aren’t...
6 Offensive Things People Say to Mother Wound Survivors
“The people closest to us should be most likely to believe our descriptions of reality and to care when we’re hurt.” - Deborah...
5 Mother Wound Red Flags
Here are five red flags that you might have inherited the mother wound from your mom.
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