Healing the Mother Wound to Build a Healthier Business with Shelly Sharon

About this episode

Polly Lavarello and Shelly Sharon discuss the impact of the mother wound on business and personal relationships, exploring themes of healing and validation.

In this episode, I’m joined by Shelly Sharon for a deeply honest conversation about the mother wound, and the way our earliest relationships can quietly shape how we show up in business. Shelly helps women who have already done a lot of healing work unpack the way a complex relationship with their mother still holds them back, so they can blossom in their relationship with themselves, others, their career and life itself. After a childhood marked by neglect and abandonment, she turned her story on its head and built a life rooted in purpose, healing and helping other women do the same. We talk about high achievement, perfectionism, visibility, burnout, boundaries and the exhausting habit of trying to earn love, safety or approval through effort. Shelly is a trauma-informed, certified Hakomi therapist who believes that dreams come true, and she brings such depth and compassion to this conversation. There is so much here for anyone who has ever looked successful on the outside but felt heavy on the inside. Highlights: (03:09) - Why high achievement can become a way of trying to feel safe and accepted (08:41) - What feeling safe enough to be visible actually looks like (15:41) - Why…

People in this episode

Host: Polly Lavarello

Guest: Shelly Sharon

Topics covered

• mother wound
• business relationships
• healing
• high achievement
• perfectionism
• boundaries
• validation

Keywords

• mother wound
• business
• healing
• perfectionism
• validation
• boundaries
• trauma-informed therapy

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