The Divine Feminine has been a huge theme in my spiritual searching for the past year or so. It's coincided with a few major events in my life and after a couple of critical moments that have lead to the need to move past my definitions of myself across the board.
One night after yet another argument with my mother, I started searching the web for articles on difficult mother-daughter relationships and role reversal. Eventually, I came across the site Womb of Light and in particular this article on parentified daughters: http://www.womboflight.com/when-sham...ied-daughters/. As always, there's points in there that don't apply to me, but the ones that do have helped to identify some blind spots and helped change the way I internally respond and externally react to difficult memories and circumstances. Maybe it will help someone else, too.
There's heaps I want to go into here but I'll just gloss it over a bit. The issues I've been dealing with include fear of inadequately mothering a girl, being hyper aware of social heirarchy, the tendency to see all other females as possible competitors and how that's hindered my ability to form meaningful friendships with other women, and self-care.
Having my mother here for the past fortnight hasn't been the nightmare I expected it to be. Part of that has to do with just accepting who she is and making contingency plans rather than trying to force her to adapt. The other part is a greater sense of self awareness on my behalf.
I'd love it if you'd share how your interactions with the divine feminine has changed you.
One night after yet another argument with my mother, I started searching the web for articles on difficult mother-daughter relationships and role reversal. Eventually, I came across the site Womb of Light and in particular this article on parentified daughters: http://www.womboflight.com/when-sham...ied-daughters/. As always, there's points in there that don't apply to me, but the ones that do have helped to identify some blind spots and helped change the way I internally respond and externally react to difficult memories and circumstances. Maybe it will help someone else, too.
There's heaps I want to go into here but I'll just gloss it over a bit. The issues I've been dealing with include fear of inadequately mothering a girl, being hyper aware of social heirarchy, the tendency to see all other females as possible competitors and how that's hindered my ability to form meaningful friendships with other women, and self-care.
Having my mother here for the past fortnight hasn't been the nightmare I expected it to be. Part of that has to do with just accepting who she is and making contingency plans rather than trying to force her to adapt. The other part is a greater sense of self awareness on my behalf.
I'd love it if you'd share how your interactions with the divine feminine has changed you.
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