I am taking a mother wound class on Daily Om, and I thought I'd share what I am learning here with you.  The first assignment is to assess what you feel the "mother wound" really is to you.  Mothers can be more than just your actual mother, so you could include...

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 Ever wake up from a dream and all you can recall is a quick "feeling" and then it's gone, along with the memory of your dream?  You know the feeling is from your dream, you just can't recall what the dream was about or where the feeling came from.  And then...

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So my mother cannot go downstairs into the basement, per her PT's orders.  She finally had shut up about it (after threatening a thousand times to do it behind my back or trying to "have a talk" with me about how before her PT came she could go down the basement...

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Do you remember that episode of Friends when Ross "almost" died?  That's how my husband and I felt after almost being swept up in a tornado today.  I mean, there wasn't a tornado, but we were in hurricane level winds, which to us, felt like we were driving directly into one. ...

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 There are so many things out there that seem to walk hand in hand with NPD.  Not all of our parents have all the same ones, but if you do some research, you'll find that I bet they have many.  Now, you can do your own research and bring your findings...

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This is a long rant which I am writing more for myself to keep of things later and as a way to get out my frustrations of what's been going on the past few months.  Sometimes I get in a cycle of irritation and I can't seem to escape it, and...

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 My husband and I have been together for fifteen years now.  Yesterday was our anniversary.  He and I are perfectly suited to one another.  He's hard-working, I'm a pretty okay homemaker.  He's got great time-management skills, I'm working on mine, but I do remember everything else (like birthdays, appointments, etc.).  We...

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I am never sure anymore if my decisions are my decisions or if I am being controlled by my mother's influence.  In the past, my mother influenced all my decisions because of two reasons: a) I was severely codependent with her and b) she would do things without my consent...

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