Episode Details

What happens when the mother who was supposed to protect you didn't, or when she competed with you, bullied you, or made you the problem? In this episode of our Healing from Sexual Trauma season, we go deeper into healing the mother wound and what it means to reparent yourself after sexual trauma.

We talk about the two wounds so many women carry fused together: what happened to you, and who didn't come. We name the mother wound that rarely gets spoken; the jealous, competitive, or emotionally unsafe mother, sometimes called a narcissistic mother; and how growing up with her can shape the fawn response. We explore why the freeze so many survivors blame themselves for was never consent. It was a survival skill learned at the kitchen table.

In this episode:

•The difference between the event and the abandonment

•When your mother was your first bully

•How fawning learned in childhood connects to freezing later

•Recognizing your inner critic as her voice, not yours

•Finding the mother within and why you don't have to build her from scratch

•Brigid, the foster-mother goddess, and being mothered by more than the woman who bore you

•A guided GLOW™ practice and three journal prompts

This is part one of two. Next week: how to stay whole when she's still in your life.

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