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The Holy Simplicity of Sitting With Uncomfortable Feelings

The Mother Wound journey is often tumultuous: it can range from denial to disbelief to astonishment. This journey is filled with recollections of past...

“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...

The Power of Disruptive Truth-telling: The Importance of Initiating Difficult Conversations

At this time in history, women are increasingly feeling the call to step forward to tell the truth and disrupt dysfunctional patterns wherever we...

Emerging from Patriarchy: Some Relationships Won’t Survive the Real You

As women living through this transformational time, we’re seeing patriarchal institutions crumble all around us — in governments, media, communities, and organizations. The devastating...

The Most Insidious Forms of Patriarchy Pass Through the Mother

Patriarchy is the social organization of a culture in which men hold more power than women. There is a common misconception that men are...

The Mother Wound as the Missing Link in Understanding Misogyny

What’s going on with men? With this massive wave of brave women coming forward with disclosures of sexual harassment across many industries, many of us, men...

Modern America’s Mother Wound: Why the State Interferes with the Mother/Child Bond to Maintain Power

Over the past five years I’ve been teaching a popular online course on Healing the Mother Wound that’s been attended by hundreds of women...

A Mother’s Pain: Why You Can’t Save Your Mother

Adult daughters are compelled to rescue their mothers. While a mother’s pain is real and valid, here’s why it is not yours to fix...

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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 [...]