145. When Healing Advice Doesn’t Fit: The Mother Wound Across Families and Cultures
What happens when healing advice doesn't fit your life? What do you do when family, faith, culture, or loyalty seem to pull you in a different direction than the healing work you're trying to do?In th...
29 Jul 33min
144. Why Am I So Hard on Myself? Healing the Inner Critic After a Narcissistic Mother
Why are daughters of narcissistic mothers often so hard on themselves?In this episode of Mother Mayhem, we’re talking about self-criticism, confidence, self-worth, and the lasting impact of a narcissi...
22 Jul 28min
143. How to Have a Relationship With a Narcissistic Mother Without Losing Yourself
Many daughters of narcissistic and emotionally immature mothers struggle with the question of whether to stay in contact or go no contact. While there is plenty of advice about setting boundaries with...
15 Jul 29min
142. Healing While Still in Contact with a Narcissistic Mother
In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of contact, why daughters often doubt their own experiences, and how healing can happen without going no contact. We also discuss self-trust, boundaries, ne...
8 Jul 41min
141. Healing Trauma Isn’t About Calming Down
In this episode, I’m taking a do-over.Over the last few years on Mayhem, I’ve talked so much about trauma, nervous systems, hypervigilance, emotional regulation, and healing after narcissistic abuse a...
1 Jul 35min
140. How to Set Boundaries When You’re Afraid of Losing People
You know what you want to say. You can feel it in your body. It doesn’t feel good. Something is off. You want something different.And then… you don’t say it.Not because you don’t know how. Not because...
24 Jun 35min
139. When Your Mother Chooses Chaos: Attachment Trauma, Toxic Family Systems & Breaking the Cycle
In this episode of Mother Mayhem, we meet a daughter navigating emotional chaos, triangulation, and repeated attachment loss caused by her mother’s unstable relationships. We’ll explore attachment tra...
17 Jun 27min
138. When Your Body Remembers Fear: Daughters of Abusive Mothers
This week, we meet a daughter who grew up in a home marked by fear, hypervigilance, emotional instability, and domestic violence. Although her childhood looked “good” from the outside, her nervous sys...
10 Jun 56min
