90. When Mother’s Day Is a Trigger (and Why That’s Not a Bad Thing)

About this episode

This episode explores the complex emotions surrounding Mother's Day and how they can lead to healing and self-worth.

Mother's Day stirs up something different in all of us - warmth, grief, indifference, or something in between. In this episode, we get real about what Mother’s Day can bring up, and why we can still celebrate all of it, and why — counterintuitively — having a strained or non-existent relationship with your mom might actually be your greatest gift. This is a Mother's Day episode for every kind of mother, every kind of daughter, and every woman doing the inner work to claim a new level of worthiness. Key Points Why Mother's Day triggers such a wide spectrum of feelings — and why all of them deserve to be honored A celebration of "the apples" — women in the School of MOM community whose strained or non-existent relationship with their mother is actually their biggest doorway to healing How the relationship we have with our mothers (for better or for worse) is foundational to our self-worth — and why self-worth is at the nucleus of everything we desire The connection between your subconscious sense of worthiness and your ability to receive, desire, and expand what you think is possible for your life Sarah's personal journey with her own mom — and the shift from "I would give all this…

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Harmon

Topics covered

• Mother's Day
• emotional triggers
• self-worth
• mother-daughter relationships
• healing
• Radical Flourishing

Keywords

• Mother's Day
• triggers
• self-worth
• healing
• mother-daughter relationships
• Radical Flourishing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: School of MOM

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