Mother Wounds: How Your Relationship With Mom Shapes Your Relationship With God
About this episode
Dr. Carol and Dr. Sarita Lyons discuss how mother wounds affect relationships and spiritual perceptions, emphasizing healing and boundaries.
What happens when the person who was supposed to help you feel safe, loved, and known instead becomes a source of hurt? In this episode, Dr. Carol talks with Dr. Sarita Lyons, author, Bible teacher, and psychotherapist, about mother wounds —the emotional and spiritual wounds that can shape our identity, relationships, and even our picture of God. They explore how experiences with our mothers can contribute to people-pleasing, over-functioning, parentification, and difficulty trusting others, while also recognizing that many mothers who wound their children are carrying wounds of their own. Healing doesn't require pretending the wound didn't happen or abandoning biblical honor. Dr. Carol and Dr. Lyons unpack the important difference between honoring a parent and obeying a parent, especially when an adult child needs healthy boundaries with an unsafe or unrepentant mother. Through honesty, grief, community, professional help, the Holy Spirit, and the healing love of Jesus, it is possible to face these wounds and move toward wholeness. The goal isn't to erase your mother from your story; it's to allow Jesus to redeem your story and become the perfectly loving parent to you that your…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley
Guest: Dr. Sarita Lyons
Topics covered
- mother wounds
- emotional healing
- spiritual growth
- parent-child relationships
- boundaries
- identity
Keywords
- mother wounds
- healing
- relationships
- boundaries
- identity
- spirituality
- people-pleasing
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Honor Thy Mother: How to Grieve, Heal, and Make Peace with Your Mother Wounds
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