Helping women break out of caretaking and start showing up more powerfully for themselves and in their relationships.
Is your relationship with your family a source of stress, pain, or guilt for you?
Do you sense that some of the issues you have in relationship stem from childhood experiences you have yet to unpack?
Have you lived under the thumb of your parent’s approval or opinions for so long, you find it difficult to connect with your own desires and needs?
Does speaking with your family make your confidence and clarity go down the drain?
Is it difficult to make decisions you know will disappoint your parents?
Is it a struggle to focus on yourself, to feel worthy enough to follow your own purpose, rather than staying busy caring for everyone else?
Is it a struggle to assert your needs in relationships - settling for less than you really want - because you are used to being so accommodating?
The majority of my 15+ years as a therapist has been dedicated to helping daughters heal from the impact of challenging attachment relationships in their childhood - primarily, the relationships they had with their mother and father (because I am not here to perpetuate mother-blaming). While we can be quite high-functioning in our every day lives, the subtle effects from our childhood experiences can live on in us.
They often show up in the places where we struggle - within our romantic relationships, friendships, or with our own children.
Sometimes the issues show up when we are trying to build traction in a relationship - but can’t seem to make it stick.
Or when we are trying to believe in ourselves. To be more confident and bold in our lives - or more vulnerable - but can’t seem to get out of our own way.
There is healing that can occur within the mother daughter relationship - but our mothers have to be willing and able to hear us.
And if mothers have been so emotionally neglected themselves, if they have never been heard, they will have a very hard time hearing their daughters.
So then it leaves us to do the healing within ourselves.
I help you do this work.