How do you know when motherhood has become a little toxic, enmeshed and smothering, and is now preventing yours and your child’s future growth? It begins with breaking the fantasy of the fully supportive mother and pulling out of the pit the imperfect, challenging mother. The challenging mother inoculates your child from life-long subordination - so how about we love her?

The lean-back skillset is a tangible you can follow along to, and break the shackles of your own subordination to the perfect mother.

In this episode we discuss:

• How you can do the lean-back skillset
• Seeing your patterns that create smothering
• Losing your own identity in your children and how that robs them of individuation
• Repulsion as a vehicle to coming back into connection with our true selves
• Letting go of the perfect mother who always walks in connection and celebration of her child
• How shaky your worth is when it’s wrapped up in how you perform as a mother
• Creating narratives for yourself outside of the ‘Hallmark’ mother
• Reconciling your own father-force blueprint
• The value of quiet holding
• Break your fantasy on support
• How we can be participants in our own pain cycles
• Differentiating when it’s about me, or when it’s about my child
• Disentangling your worth from care-taking

To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/

To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/