What is the MOTHER-DAUGHTER WOUND?

The Mother-Daughter Wound is a systemic reality based on patriarchal narratives of the self-sacrificial woman, in which women who have been denied agency and voice in their own lives can resent, criticize, and judge those women who exhibit greater levels of self-actualization in their personal and professional lives.  

Mid-career women can face enormous backlash in both their personal and professional lives because of this often silenced dynamic, resulting in family of origin conflict, executive derailment, and chronic dissociation from self. Despite the prevalence of the mother-daughter wound in both family and workplace culture, it can often come as surprise and a source of shame for mid-career women leaders. 
 

​How the MOTHER-DAUGHTER WOUND impacts mid-career women:
 
  • We are at the height of our own process of self-individuation in our personal and professional lives, causing women who are less self-actualized to judge, resent, and reject our own growth and self-development.
 
  • We are the target of generational clashes over gendered understandings of servant-leadership in both family and workplace systems.
 
  • We begin to unveil gender expectations of people-pleasing and over-functioning as damaging and unsustainable, which confronts patriarchal narratives in both personal and professional relationships.
 
  • We engage in healthy boundaries and self-differentiation, which can feel threatening to those who have benefited from narratives of female self-sacrifice.
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Previous Venues have included:
Heartspace Holistic Yoga and Wellness, NY
Intuition Studio, NY