To be abused as a child by your mother is dehumanizing.
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If you make self-fulfillment a goal and fill yourself you won't have the capacity for your mother's toxicity. Nor will you be desperate for her crumbs.
Ask yourself, what do you want, expect, demand, even beg from your mother?
That is what you fill yourself up with and that is how you brea…
Some daughters would rather feel pain from their abusive mother because if they didn't accept that, they would feel nothing at all from her. A sad truth to settle for less because you value your mother more than you value yourself, while she doesn't value you at all.
You ain't gotta set yours…
You followed her rules.
Took their advice.
Honored your mother even when she dishonored herself, you, and motherhood
Been a passive participant in your life, an accessory to your own abuse by sacrificing yourself in the name of being a good daughter.
Your resiliency has bee…
To #UnMotherFuckYourSelf is to break free from the mother that you never even had.
It isn't the relationship you are holding on to, it is the concept of the mother that you never got (and admittedly deserve) that you are holding on too.
A life-shattering reality but also a life-bui…
Loyalty to your mother shouldn't require you to be disloyal to yourself. If getting along with your mother requires to go against yourself, and your well-being. then not only are you in a dysfunctional relationship with your mother but you are in a dysfunctional relationship with yourself.
An…
When in a strained relationship with your mother, not only does she and the impact of her abuse has a hold on you, she/it has a hold on your relationships.
Until you decide to stop running from the truth, either your mother will directly destroy your relationships through her manipulation and…
She didn’t know that generations of pain were etched into the fibers of her DNA, permeated into her soul, tainted her true spirit. Wounds upon wounds, passed down, infected and untreated. She wore the words, actions, mistakes of her mother and others and became what was spoken and done to her an…
Hey!
I wanted to give you the gift of music in this email. Music kept me sane during my teenage years and even into my adulthood. Out the blue awhile back, I start writing down songs for women (you) who are in a strained relationship with their mothers and realized I was putting together …
