Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

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If you grew up experiencing emotional abandonment in childhood, it might make mothering more difficult.

Like all archetypes, the old woman has two aspects. She can be life-giving and creative, or punishing and destructive.

our inability to tolerate our children’s discomfort teaches them that discomfort is intolerable. This imprisons them in fear and constricts their development.

When interpreting a fairy tale psychologically, we start with the assumption that all elements in the tale are aspects of a single psyche.

In order to become firmly planted in your unique life, you must sacrifice unlimited potential for the manifested reality of ordinary fate.

Jung defined persona to mean the mask that we wear out in the world. Everyone needs a persona, perhaps even several, depending on the roles we need to fill.

If we don’t set a place at our table for our dark qualities, they are likely to paradoxically bring about the very wounding of our children that we aim to avoid.

It features the universal motif of descent, sojourn, and return that characterizes female initiation.