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How Your Inner Teenager Perpetuates Patriarchy and Holds You Back

As a teen, you learned strategies to survive. Learn how and why your inner teenager influences now and how to become an empowered adult.

The Legacy of Female Shame and How to Disrupt It

Our mothers were taught to self-abandon and that pattern is passed down to daughters. Here’s how to disrupt the legacy of female shame.

True Inter-generational Healing Includes Confronting Racism

This is a hard pill to swallow for white women… Historically, white women have played a key role in sustaining white supremacy. For generations...

Getting to the Root: Processing Past Pain is Necessary to Create a New World

In today’s post-pandemic world we are surrounded by evidence that the many of the common values, beliefs, or worldviews we took for granted decades...

The Illusion of Benevolent Patriarchy and The Good Girl

Have you mistaken love for self-betrayal? Read about the role of the "good girl" in dysfunctional systems and the illusion of benevolent patriarchy.

Re-defining “Honor Thy Mother and Father” in the new paradigm

“Honor thy mother and father,” says the commandment Young children are biologically predisposed to revere and honor their parents in order to survive. Yet,...

The Importance of Resisting the Cultural Pressure to Ignore the Mother Wound

I posted a blog article that went viral called, “Why It’s Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound.” One of the themes in the feedback...

“Inner Safety” and Innovative Female Leadership: Midwifing a Post-Patriarchal World

We’re living in a transformational time in history. Patriarchal systems in our world are crumbling and more dysfunctional than ever. World changes are pointing...

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Signs You Had a “Mean Girl” Mother—and How to Heal

Is Your Mother a “Mean Girl”? It’s a taboo to admit—even to yourself—that your own mother may have acted like a “mean girl.” The shock of that truth often creates [...]

Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Relationship with Your Mother — and Why That’s Not Your Fault

Mother’s Day is coming up in the U.S. And while for some, it’s a time of flowers, brunches, and warm memories, for many adult daughters, it can be deeply painful. [...]

From Idealization to Integrity: Healing from our Collective Idealization of False Power

Lately, world politics feels like a macro version of a dysfunctional family. Have you been noticing this? There’s an underlying connection between the trauma and narcissism within families and [...]

A Love That Protects: The Path from Self-Betrayal to Self-Belonging

Breaking the Spell: Redefining What It Means to Be “Good” I’ve been reflecting on something I think many women will understand in their bones: how we were taught—explicitly and implicitly—that [...]