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“Do you avoid confrontation at all costs? Do you apologize often, especially when you’re not even sorry? ” – Terri Cole

Intro

If you had a mean or rejecting mother, you probably learned early not to talk about it. People don’t want to believe it. They say things like “you only have one mother” or “she did her best,” and suddenly you’re defending your own experience to someone who can’t imagine having it.

That isolation is often the first wound. 

This episode continues the mother wound conversation from last week. While every story is different, there are patterns I’ve seen consistently across almost 30 years of clinical work with daughters of mean and rejecting mothers. Here’s what the research and the therapy room both show.

Highlights:

• 3:20 Recent high-profile examples of people with mean moms
• 5:30 The effects of growing up with a mean mother
• 13:20 Balancing the impact of having a mean mother
• 16:00 Accepting the reality of your experience

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