Much attention is given to the wounds inflicted on children raised by a wounded mother.

Less focus is placed on understanding the pains of the wounded mother

and how she came to parent in the ways she did.

Tamila Floyd, a certified internal family systems psychotherapist, teaches about the wounded child and the wounded mother and how to heal both.

Tamila guides listeners through a meditation designed to connect with the experiences, memories, and pains of the mother's own wounded child self.

Through this connection, the mother can listen to, learn from, and offer support and comfort to her younger self.

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The Wounded Child

A Meditation to Connect with the W wounded child who grew up to be the wounded mother.

Begin by doing what feels natural to relax and prepare to meditate.

If you like, you can close your eyes or simply notice your breath. As you breathe in and out, allow your body to relax. Lower your shoulders, unclinch your jaw, relax your forehead, and unfurlough your brow. Let's travel back in time to when you were a child.

Let's travel back in time to when you were a child from your mother, father? father or primary caregiver. Did you feel important or a priority to them? What did they about you? what was unacceptable. Did people light up when you came into a room, or was your presence barely noticed?

What was that like for you?

What was that like for you?

Take a moment to notice your body.

Where do you hold these experiences in your body. Notice where and what it feels like.

Name the sensations. Become aware of the emotions.

Become aware of the emotions stemming from the treatment you received. Name the emotions.

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