The last time I googled Mother/Daughter
relationships there were 2,840,000 results; that’s a LOT of women looking for
answers!
Whether you love spending
time with your mom or do everything in your power to stay away from your mom, mother/daughter
relationships create both positive and negative energy.
Among the many things that can
make unfulfilling mother/daughter relationships are drama, resentment, abuse, abandonment,
trauma, neglect, feeling trapped, anger…
Unfulfilling relationships
with your mother can be the cause of low self-esteem, low self-worth, low
self-confidence, low self-image and a lack of self-love.
I know this to be true
because most of my childhood was spent attempting to avoid my mother and most
of my adult life was spent trying to understand her parenting choices while working
to get past the mental, emotional and physical abuse that escalated to sexual
abuse by the age of 12.
I never went so far as to
stop speaking to her but the fact that she lived in Ohio and I live in California
made it easy to avoid my mother until I had a life changing event that brought her
back into my life!
But this isn’t about how my
mom and I healed our relationship, this is about my choice to move from sunny
southern California to Ohio and “Life With Mom”! My mom and I talk on the phone at least once
a day and it was becoming more and more apparent to me that my mom and her
husband could use my help. We talked
about them moving to California but
they have a home, friends, commitments, and roots in Ohio.
I work from home and work
with clients via the internet, but how could I leave my life in
California? That was the million-dollar
question on my mind; I did a lot of meditating and asked the Universe to give
me a sign, so I’d know what to do. I got
my first sign, and immediately asked for another sign (after all, this was a
BIG decision!). The Universe answered my
request with another sign that Ohio was in my future, so I stopped resisting
and prepared for the move.
When you are in true
alignment with the Universe, everything seems effortless. I left the sunny beaches of California and
have already experienced my first light snowfall. Now that the move is over, I am settling into “Life
With Mom”. This is our opportunity to
pick up where we left off when I published my book about mother daughter
relationships.
“Life With Mom” includes
doctor appointments, health issues, home maintenance, dietary needs, errands, and
the joy of learning who we are as individuals and who we are as mother and
daughter all these many years later, now that we’ve learned how to heal the
child within!
If you want to read more
about how I was able to heal my inner child and why my mom asked me to teach
her how she could do the same, CLICK
HERE or visit amazon.com and look for HEALING THE CHILD WITHIN Life Is All About Choices.
Once a woman understands she
holds the power to create fulfilling relationships, rather than believing she
must endure the toxic relationships that have been a part of her life, it
becomes clear that her failed relationship was simply an illusion!
Nancy Mueller ~ Life
Empowerment Sensei
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