Mother’s Day This Year Can Feel Different
Mother’s day this year can feel different. It can be something else than a sad day, a triggering day or a numbing day. When you transform mother wound limiting beliefs to empowering beliefs you change the way you feel about your past with your past and as a result the way you feel about mother's day transforms as well. You’ll learn here how to identify limiting beliefs that come from the mother wound and what are the effects of limiting beliefs.
Spoiler alert: a special Mother’s Day offer at the end of this blog
Mother’s day this year can feel different. If in the past you felt triggered, sad, angry or like me indifferent, this year I want you to have a different experience.
I have never celebrated mother’s day. Since I’ve never had a good relationship with my mother and I never appreciated the way she treated me and my sister, I just treated mother’s day as any other day.
But I in past, I also didn’t have an insight into why I’m not so disturbed by it as other women with a mother wound were. It’s like it didn't touch me.
When I’ve discovered why I seemingly didn’t have big feelings about it my whole perspective changed.
Maybe there were years that I brought her a bunch of flowers. That was nothing more than doing something that everyone was doing, without being emotionally invested in it.
In the need to step into the adult’s shoes and cover for my mother’s misgivings, I grew to believe that I don’t need anybody—and definitely don’t need her, that it’s all on me and that I know how to solve my problems. So if I just moved on there’s nothing to celebrate nor lament.
These were strong mother wound’s limiting beliefs but for many years I didn’t know how to identify limiting beliefs. So they shaped my life until I learnt otherwise.
How to identify limiting beliefs
As humans we can’t live without beliefs. But we can learn how to identify limiting beliefs in order to rewrite them to empowering beliefs.
A belief is a psychological structure that allows us to make sense of life. A belief creates a unique connection between self and others/world /life which draws from early life experiences.
Women who grew up with a mother who didn’t provide for their needs for guidance, safety and nourishment unconsciously draw conclusions from that relationship and design a beliefs system that is as limiting as their relationship with their mother.
Three very common mother wound examples of limiting beliefs are:
I can’t be loved
I’m not enough
I’m misunderstood
While none of these are true, to our nervous system and emotional body they ring very much as Truth.
These limiting beliefs were part of my system too. I wanted to be loved but ended up choosing the wrong people for it. I pretended that I knew it all and always felt that I should be careful with what say and how because the potential to be misunderstood and the frustration that came with it was too eminent.
No amount of self-convincing or coaching can bypass a belief system into adopting empowering beliefs without the understanding of what are the effects of limiting beliefs.
What are the effects of limiting beliefs
Limiting beliefs are wired into our nervous system and as such they have four motivating actions, just like the nervous system:
They push us to fight
They lead us into flight
They numb us
They push us to befriend at any cost
Our individual beliefs might prescribe different variations of the common narratives of limiting beliefs but the effect of limiting beliefs will always fall in one of these four responses.
Limiting beliefs shape rigid responses and perspectives and block fresh and spontaneous engagement with new possibilities.
The years I spent in therapy healing my own mother wound and then in training in trauma-informed practices for healing the mother wound shed light on why I was so indifferent (or numb) to mother’s day.
I was in freeze!
My belief system was a numbing response to the unbearable pain I’ve experienced in the relationship with my mother.
To my mind, unconsciously, it looked like it’s better to pretend that it didn’t touch me than to enter the chaos of feeling the feelings that were attached to being neglected, mistreated, abandoned and traumatised.
Mother’s day this year feels to me like a peaceful letting go and acceptance for the childhood I’ve never had and the mother who couldn’t be present for me.
Mother’s day this year can feel different because of this fact
I’ve witnessed this both on myself and the many women I’ve worked with over the years—When you heal the mother wound you feel unburdened by the pain and free to design empowering beliefs.
When we feel good about ourselves, have an emotional and psychological knowing that what happened in childhood was not our fault and realise that we’re not responsible for our mother (her health, happiness or anything else) the big emotions towards our mother change and so do our feelings towards mother’s day.
I want you to have a mother’s day this year that feels different. That bears the fruits of rewiring to empowering beliefs.
I know that it's possible to believe you’re worthy of care and love without effort-ing for it, that you’re allowed to be as close or far as you wish from any person, including your mum and that your satisfaction in life hinges on nothing besides sharing yourself fully and freely with your people and communities.
My Video Training on breaking free from limiting beliefs
I’ve designed a video training for healing the mother wound by breaking free from limiting beliefs. This course will teach you:
How to connect to your innate capacity for wholeness
How to identify your limiting beliefs
Why you shouldn’t be afraid of limiting beliefs
What are the keys to unlocking limiting beliefs
How to integrate empowering beliefs
Mother’s day offer
For mother’s day this year I’m offering:
50% discount on my video training Breaking Free from Limiting beliefs - Only 22.5CHF, instead of 45CHF
Invitation to an exclusive event for those who purchased the course.
How this works
Purchase the video with this coupon code: MOTHERSDAY
The offer is valid until May 20th 2024
Once you purchased the video training you’ll have instant access to the training’s material and you’ll receive an email invitation for the event
If you purchased the course in the past (or received it as a gift for your participation in the Mother Wound Summit) you’re also welcome to join this special event
What’s included
This is a video training to do it in your own pace.
6 units packed with guidance for breaking free from limiting beliefs, divided into digestible videos
Guided reflections and explorations to breaking free from limiting beliefs
Exclusive event held on Zoom, Thursday May 30th 20-21:15 CET (check your time zone here). I’ll lead somatic practices for healing the mother wound and limiting beliefs and offer space for Q&A for anything that came up for you from the course or your current struggles with limiting beliefs and the mother wound
Have more questions? Want to learn more about the video training and why it's relevant for you and for healing the mother wound?
Click here to learn mor about Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs. Dont forget to use the coupon code MOTHERSDAY
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