Episode
EP 648: The Mother Wound
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- May 4, 2026
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- 2195
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Summary
It's not your dating apps, your "type," or your bad luck, the reason you keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners, shrinking yourself to be loved, and hearing a brutal voice in your head that sounds suspiciously like her … has a name. And girl, we're naming it today. In Part 2 of our 4-part series on the copy paste relationship theory, we're going to the root of the root, the mother wound. This is not a "let's bash our moms" episode. This is an awareness episode, because your mother was your very first attachment figure, and the imprint she left didn't disappear when you turned 18, it's running your love life right now. With Mother's Day approaching, I want to hold space for every version of this you might be sitting in: the mom you love but had to distance from, the mom who's gone, the mom who was physically present but emotionally somewhere else entirely, the mother figures who weren't biologically yours but shaped you anyway. Wherever you are with all of this, I see you, and this episode is going to crack something open. Take a breath, grab your journal, and buckle up. Inside the episode: The 7 sneaky ways the mother wound shows up in your love life right now, from chronic people-pleasing and difficulty receiving, to disproportionate emotional reactions, to choosing partners who recreate the exact dynamic you grew up in (and why your inner critic might sound suspiciously like her) The 5 types of mother wounds, and which one is yours, the Emotionally Unavailable Mother, the Enmeshed Mother, the Critical Mother, the Unpredictable Mother, and the Mother With No Capacity (because love without capacity is torture and so many of you needed to hear that) Why "she did her best" and "I have a mother wound" can both be true, the radical acceptance work that lives in the…