Ep. 287: Estrangement Lessons - Why I Had to Break up With My Mother
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Natalie opens up about her decision to break up with her mother, exploring how she arrived at this choice and why sometimes stepping away from relationships - even with parents - is necessary for healing and being able to live your life with love, care, trust and respect.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, a podcast about building, |
| 0:07.6 | growing and sustaining healthy and intimate relationships with yourself and those around you |
| 0:12.9 | by reclaiming yourself from your emotional baggage. Since 2005, I've been writing one of the |
| 0:18.9 | longest running self-help blogs in the world, baggage reclaim. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm a dating and relationship coach, and I'm also author of five books, including Mr. |
| 0:27.0 | Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and the Joy of Saying No. |
| 0:31.2 | Everything I share on the podcast will help you break the cycle by healing the past through |
| 0:36.2 | increasing emotional availability, |
| 0:38.7 | cutting back on people pleasing, creating healthier boundaries and ultimately owning who you are. |
| 0:44.6 | You don't have to settle for crumbs from yourself or others, |
| 0:47.3 | and you can give and receive love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, let's do this. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? |
| 1:06.8 | In today's episode, I want to visit a subject that I know a number of you are pretty curious about, |
| 1:17.4 | which is the breakup with my mother. It is coming up to two years since I stepped away from our relationship. |
| 1:24.4 | And that happened less than a week after I had stopped this podcast. |
| 1:27.4 | You may recall when I stopped the podcast, I thought that it was for good. |
| 1:33.0 | And then I came back 20 months later and I've relaunched the show. We've had several episodes. |
| 1:40.3 | And in the relaunch episode of the show, I did talk a little bit about the breakup, but I haven't devoted an episode to it yet. I have written about it in that time when I was off on the podcast, |
| 1:46.4 | but I thought it would be good to talk a little about what happened, |
| 1:50.9 | but more about how I arrived at that decision |
| 1:55.5 | and some insight into that journey over this last couple of years. |
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