9 09, 2022

Loss, Mother Wound And Relationships

By |2022-09-10T07:23:57+00:00September 9th, 2022|1 Comment

Today you like so many of us on this planet may be affected in some ways by the news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. News like this often brings up difficult feelings related to perhaps other losses in life and, of course, for people living in the UK, [...]

15 11, 2021

Mother wound and the role of reparenting in healing

By |2021-11-16T10:39:32+00:00November 15th, 2021|0 Comments

Jake* has a business and he has made it into a success. He has a family with kids and a partner. His life is on the outside very good and people in his environment would not know how the external success and the internal feeling of always being on the [...]

2 02, 2021

What is behind the relationship anxiety?

By |2021-09-16T11:36:11+00:00February 2nd, 2021|0 Comments

How do you feel when your partner is out of sight? Do you often become preoccupied with worrying about your relationship if your partner is away from you for, for example, when they go to work elsewhere or you live in different addresses? Perhaps you start imagining potential situations of [...]

26 02, 2020

What to do when your Mother Wound gets triggered?

By |2020-02-28T14:47:52+00:00February 26th, 2020|1 Comment

Mother wound, the deep emotional pain that can impact you in so many ways. Perhaps you have learnt to live with it and developed coping strategies, some of which may be helpful whilst others are unhelpful even harmful in the long run such as avoiding situations which feel emotionally challenging, [...]

30 06, 2019

Ending the emptiness and loneliness of Childhood Emotional Neglect

By |2019-10-31T22:43:45+00:00June 30th, 2019|0 Comments

William* is a man who on the outside looks like he has everything going on for him. He has a good job, a partner and children. William has always felt like there is something missing in his life but he cannot pinpoint what that might be as there is no [...]

17 03, 2019

Top 5 most read blog posts on relationships, childhood neglect and trauma

By |2019-03-17T21:56:52+00:00March 17th, 2019|0 Comments

For this month’s post, I wanted to bring together the five most read posts on my website in the past year in case someone hasn’t seen them yet. I started blogging about three years ago. My aim was to be able to give through my writing hope for healing and [...]

21 02, 2018

“I have to be….” – What is Your perfectionism covering?

By |2019-03-04T16:23:56+00:00February 21st, 2018|0 Comments

Laura* often feels stressed out and tries to be the perfect employee, a partner, and a mother. She is the one who puts 110% effort into everything and always thinks of others. She feels ashamed if she is not able to achieve her standards. She feels that her world [...]

10 07, 2017

Healing the mother wound – Part 1: Understanding the mother wound, good enough mothering and the impact of the mother wound as an adult

By |2020-07-08T07:02:11+00:00July 10th, 2017|9 Comments

Perhaps the most painful of all feelings is the awareness that your mother was not there for you emotionally as a child, this creates the mother wound. She might have been physically present but emotionally absent. Perhaps she was (is) very critical and she was telling [...]

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