Maternal Addiction & Creative Alchemy: Healing the Inner Child with Karli Corandos
About this episode
Nicole Weston and Karli Corandos discuss the impact of maternal addiction on daughters and the journey of healing through creative expression and inner child work.
"Healing isn't about erasing your past; it is about learning to hold the 'both/and' reality—the deep pain of a chaotic upbringing alongside absolute love for a parent who struggled." Growing up with a mother who is chronically ill or struggling with severe substance addiction alters how a daughter's nervous system defines safety and self-worth. In adulthood, high-capacity women often find themselves stuck in a perpetual survival loop, running from the unresolved trauma of their upbringing while trying to maintain their own businesses, families, and creative endeavors. Breaking these ancestral cycles requires moving past the standard linear rules of mourning and stepping into deep inner child integration. In this episode, host Nicole Weston sits down with Karli Corandos—author, creative strategist, and founder of Mother Luck —to look closely at the reality of delayed grief processing. Karli shares her raw experience of navigating a fragmented mother-daughter relationship clouded by her parent's health struggles and addiction. Together, they discuss the critical transition from survival mode to active self-awareness, the psychological frameworks of inner child…
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