I've never said it out loud, but I was jealous of my friends relationships with their mums

I don’t think my daughter realises she’s subconsciously helping me break generational cycles and heal the mother wound.

I always longed for the kind of mother daughter relationship The simple things like being able to tell each other anything without fearing the others reaction, coffee dates, laughing together and feeling safe to disagree. I never really thought I’d get to experience that.

The mother wound isn’t just about the relationship you had with your mother. It also shows up in how you see yourself, how you speak to yourself, what you believe you deserve and then follows you into how you mother your own kids.

Then my daughter came along. She challenges my thinking, makes jokes at my expense, tells me when she thinks I’m wrong, and never has to question whether her mum loves her. She gets to be completely herself with me, and thats the relationship I always hoped was possible.

My kids and I have walked through some incredibly hard years together. There have been tears, conflict, disconnection and moments where all of us have struggled but underneath all of that, they know they can come back, they know they can tell me hard things and disagree with me and they will still be loved.

I have a unique relationship with all of my kids, I love how different they all are from each other and how in their own way each of them is helping heal parts of my mother wound.

There’s something different with a mother daughter bond and the mother son bond. They aren’t the same but equally important and healing. I’m so grateful that the disconnect that has gone down our generational line ends with my daughter and I

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Did you ever look at other mother daughter relationships and feel that little ache?