Healing Your Mother Wounds

This leads us to the second important question. “What was your relationship like with your mother?”
This question can be the trickiest. Addressing mother issues can feel dishonoring or disrespectful, especially because most mother’s carry an excessive spiritual and emotional burden in the home. But the wounds we carry are present, nonetheless.
Further questions can help you process healing:
- Was your mother a safe source of nurture in your life, teaching you how to process pain and recover from emotional challenges?
- Did she love you when you needed it?
- Was she emotionally available to you?
- Did she comfort you in times of struggle?
Furthermore, did your mother equip you with a capacity for nurture and emotional health? Were you able to move into adulthood with an ability to regulate your emotions and engage relationships in an effective way?
The power of a healthy mother relationship will impart a well-rounded reference for nurture, which is how we develop emotional and relational health. Nurture welcomes people into safe and comforting relationships, which is what a healthy mother provides.
Nurture is also developed in how you receive affection growing up. Your relationship with your mother will greatly impact how you are able to give and receive affection. Through hugs, kisses and comforting words, those affectionate experiences build a healthy familiarity with the power of God’s nurturing love.
God is our Heavenly Father, but he also intended for His nurture to be seen through the lives of healthy mothers. You learn nurture from both your dad and mom, but the mother provides nurture in a way that is all her own. With nurture properly established, both men and women can grow up with emotional stability and a healthy ability to love themselves.
The mother wound is one that takes time to understand. Most do not see it at first. But a growing percentage of people carry unaddressed mom wounds, simply because their mother could not or would not nurture them in the way they needed.
Perhaps mom left. Or maybe she was physically present, but emotionally absent and detached. It’s possible she was preoccupied with being angry at your father. Many moms never received affection from their own mothers, so her empty heart left her to become an emotionally cold mother.
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