reMothering Blog

Let's start with what it's not.  Remothering is not a report card on the parenting we did or did not receive.  It's a form of self-care; a rite of passage that we are called to when ... 

Remothering is the self-care practice of turning within to access the mother qualities we seek. The formal definition of remothering is...

Part of our "How do I remother myself?" series, this article lays out the remothering roadmap.  Check out the step-by-step process here.... 

If the holiday season feels like a psychological obstacle course, you may want to give this curious and weird somatic technique a try... 

Ever felt confused, or even gaslit, after spending time with someone challenging?  

Q: was your subjective experience being honored?  

Do you hear about those relationships where people turn to their mother for advice and comfort and wonder if that's some people's reality? 

If that sounds more like an urban myth than reality, you may have been raised by an emotionally immature parent. Check out this book note about Dr. Lindsay Gibson's best-selling book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents to learn more

4 Essential boundary tools for a weekend away with difficult family members 

Over-explaining requires your emotional labor. Ask yourself these 3 questions to see if you are doing it.  Plus, learn about freeing up that energy by shifting to strategic explaining

Remothering is the work we do to deepen our connection with ourselves (and our wise inner council).  Here's how we get started... 

Ever wonder why there are certain times that you just can't seem to logic your way forward?  This article has your answer. 

You'll definitely want to have this tool in your remothering toolkit.

5 tools for the remothering journey from the book US:  getting past you & me to build a more loving relationship by Terrence Real.

Join us on the blog for the remothering take-aways from this bestselling book about relational health.

Are we orbiting "other" when we think about forgiveness? 

The "be a Good Girl" messaging so many of us received as children can distort our understanding of what it means to include ourselves in the equation. 

In case this is all you read, let me start with the punchline:  self-forgiveness is an act of love that ripples into the world and creates more love.

For some of us, because of early programming, we tend link the words self-anything with being selfish which creates a unique set of challenges when it comes to self-forgiveness. 

Metabolizing information is a process; just like digesting our food is a process.  Let's give ourselves permission to ...

First Sunday in May. 

Dear Wise Inner Mother, thank you for loving me AS I AM and as I become.  Happy Remothering Day.  

love, Me

Three interconnected ideas that weave together to answer the question