Episode 47: Kerri Hummingbird - The Mother Wound

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

The Mother Wound.

This is a subject that is near and dear to me because of my own experience healing this wound, and it’s a continual theme in my work as a co-active coach. Most often, women are unaware that they have a throbbing Mother wound waiting to be revealed and healed.

Often the wound continues to cause problems in the lives of women because they don’t understand the source of their pain and if they do, they are taught not to talk about it.

From a very early age, we are raised to reject the feminine. Our initial split is usually unconscious but begins with that which represents the feminine, our own mother.
We are taught that an alternative to being “feminine” is to seek to emulate the masculine because it’s what we glorify in this culture, and so many women become lost, deeply yearning for the missing and rejected parts of herself.

In a patriarchal culture, we are taught that to be feminine is weak, emotional, crazy, manipulative, and needy. Because our own mothers grew up inside the same patriarchal culture, they often exhibit symptoms of the wound and perpetuate it through their own fractured parenting, or pass it through the womb. They too are trapped between a rock and a hard place due to the fact that our society does not value their role in the family structure, nor do they value themselves, because, wound.

In addition to the fact that we don’t celebrate the feminine in our culture, we also can’t speak of the fracture, because to speak ill of your mother is taboo. While we can poke fun through media, comedy, literature, and theatre, we are bound to a collective shame should we dare speak out against the women who birthed us into the world.

Healing the Mother-Daughter split involves grieving the initial separation from or rejection of her, as well as the rejection of that part of ourselves, and then learning to honor the values that we've been cut off from as women - a reclaiming of our own feminine, and ultimately a reclamation and integration of both the feminine and the masculine.
Join me in welcoming back Kerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide, here to talk to us about her latest book -Love is Fierce, Healing the Mother Wound

Kerri Hummingbird inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with authenticity, passion, and purpose that positively impacts others. She catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom with her Reinvent Yourself programs for individual and group mentoring. She is the international best-selling author of The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama and the award-winning best-selling book Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love which describes the early years of her spiritual awakening. She has served as a social activist, leader, and philanthropist for over three decades. Kerri is also the Founder of the Skills Not Pills Movement and Host of the Soul Nectar Show. Her latest book is available now on [Amazon]((http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B08KFPJZXG/revelationpro-20))

Episode 38: Andrea Mosley: Wild and Holy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:15:00 -0400

*Remembering who we really are can take a while, especially when you’ve been raised in a society that has created impossible and distorted standards of beauty. *

Often by the time we are in grade school, we find ourselves becoming self-critical and lost in comparison and self-criticism. We are too much: too fast, too slow, too thin too fat, too short too round, too this or too that. Eventually, we forget who we really were before the world tried to change us into something we are not.

Andrea Mosley is the woman behind the brand Beautiful Soul. There was a time she did not know how beautiful she was, and she spent most of her days allowing everyone but herself to decide who she was and what she should be. After a lifetime of starts and stops, Andrea pursued a master’s degree in psychology which also led her to the world of metaphysics. Since her awakening, Andrea has made it her life’s mission to help women, in particular, remember their beauty.

Listen in as we explore what makes us beautiful and how to shift from our external understanding into a personalized internal understanding that moves us confidently into our deeper knowing.

Women with beautiful souls can attract unhealthy relationships, particularly narcissists.
Remembering who you are is an ongoing process and practice.
What makes a soul beautiful is the light and the height of our lived experience. The beautiful joys as well as the low points.
We are not just one-dimensional beings - we have to allow ourselves to be it all. We can simultaneously integrate all the parts of who we are while giving ourselves grace and compassion and love for all of it.
Disrupting disempowering and negative narratives takes a level of vigilance and noticing, but also self-love and compassion.
How we define beauty has everything to do with our ability to see ourselves as beautiful.
What we mean when we say someone is beautiful inside and out.
Don’t miss and dismiss and bypass the parts of us that perhaps don’t meet the conventional standards of beauty.
Beauty is found in the mess of the human experience.
In the mess we see our gifts, our character, our gifts of knowing who we are.
Beauty encompasses and includes a wide arc of definitions - both the wild and the holy.
Ascended Masters are wonderful teachers.

Links:

The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Narcissist”

Episode 47: Kerri Hummingbird - The Mother Wound

Episode 38: Andrea Mosley: Wild and Holy