If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child.

Yet, as we know, this can be fraught with many challenges.  More so if a mother wasn’t mothered herself as a child.  How do we learn the nuances of treating others with great care, affection and love if we do not know how?

This is the dilemma of many: children born to unaware parents, ill-equipped with emotional intelligence or ability, perpetuating generational emotional gaps.  It’s no one’s fault, but our adult responsibility for our society, as discussed yesterday, has only started to address trauma, increase emotional intelligence awareness and focus on damaging behaviour.  The challenge now is parents remaining ignorant from lack of resources or worse choose to stay ignorant, digging their feet into the ground against learning different ways of being, sharing, connecting and loving themselves and, therefore, those they inter-relate.

Believe me. I get it!! My upbringing was pretty void of the human basics – love, nurture, care and attention.  It affected me to want out of this life and end it all.  I couldn’t see or feel the point.  The depth of despair and nothingness was horrendous.  But, I wasn’t allowed to die, the free will on this topic was not mine, so I Had to learn how to mother myself.

One of the most painful voids was my sense of unworthiness in being a mother. Here I was, with two children, and I felt I had no idea how to be a mother to them.  Sure, I had seen movies, watched others, knew the theory etc., but without accurate references and memories, it was damn hard.  The emptiness I felt just made things all the more complicated.

After surrendering to the idea that living was a requirement, I learned the most significant turning point.  Learn about myself, my past, and what it meant to feel and be loved.

Relationships are the schoolyard of love and living, and mothering is the ultimate schoolyard, house, district even of relationships. We are the home base, security, teaching room, counsellor, spiritual guidance leader, play master and sports director—drama and theatre master and social events coordinator.  The mothering role is all and everything from conception through to the point of some time.

Yet, the manual is obsolete beyond the possible technical process of cleaning, clothing, house, and creating a safe home, with basic communication and developmental ideas.  No parent gets it right all the time, and many are unlearning their traumas simultaneously as they are guiding their youngsters. 

Unfortunately, our mothering report cards take years, decades even to populate and be sent to us.  What is mothering success anyways?  By who or what standard do we gauge our mothering skills against when we are working with little ones who have their own life agendas and codings?

From my experiences of screwing up – my interpretation and wanting too deeply to get things more right than I lived through, the only way was to go in and shift through the layers and layers of BS, fears and lies.  As it turns out according to my eldest son’s updated feedback, things are going alright.

My childhood mothering experience set me up to unlearn a heap of generational trauma, and often I felt I was living my mother’s childhood on her behalf to heal her.   Why?  One of my life missions is to support my mother’s healing.

Back to me, after all, my life is mine, and mine to co-create. Yes, it is all about me :).  A decision was the turning point, and as the saying goes – the Universe, meeting the right people, courses, challenges etc., at the right time occurred.  Synchronicity happened and still happens. The challenge with synchronicity is to see it, trust it and take the leap of faith to dive into the opportunities presented.

This is my life purpose.  Providing others with the opportunity to unlearn, learn, heal, shift, and let go of the lies, limiting beliefs, fears and stories inherited and created that says, “I CAN NOT DO THIS OR THAT, OR THIS IS NOT FOR ME BECAUSE OF…”  I counter this to myself and others “Why not?”  Why Can’t I have love, happiness, peace, connection, joy, etc.?