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The Importance of Recognizing Your Mother as a Woman
When I started meeting older women who stepped into mentor and mother roles for me, it really shifted how I engaged with my mother. And I would say for the better, eventually, because I could see her as a woman not just as a woman who brought me into this world, but as a woman with her own baggage and flaws and shortcomings and trauma. When we take people off pedestals, when we lower the throne, we see them as humans... We can then decide from a more clear perspective if we want to continue being in relationship with them.