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The document outlines a series of journaling homework lessons aimed at healing the 'mother wound' by reflecting on personal experiences and emotions related to one's mother and maternal lineage. Each lesson encourages deep introspection, emotional processing, and the exploration of relationships with mothers and grandmothers, ultimately guiding individuals towards forgiveness and self-compassion. The exercises are designed to be completed over time, allowing for gradual healing and understanding of one's inner life.

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The document outlines a series of journaling homework lessons aimed at healing the 'mother wound' by reflecting on personal experiences and emotions related to one's mother and maternal lineage. Each lesson encourages deep introspection, emotional processing, and the exploration of relationships with mothers and grandmothers, ultimately guiding individuals towards forgiveness and self-compassion. The exercises are designed to be completed over time, allowing for gradual healing and understanding of one's inner life.

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Journal
How to Heal the Mother Wound
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Homework Lesson 1
In your journal, take some time to consider what the mother wound means to you. How would you
describe it in the context of your own childhood environment? Give words to your experience,
without feeling the need for completion or perfection. It's perfectly fine (and even good) for your
definition to be more like a sketch, feeling, or memory. If you aren't sure, that's perfectly fine as well.
You might then describe your mother. What was she like? What was/is your relationship like? Feelings
of guilt may come up in writing about your mother, but this work is for you. This is a journaling exercise
you can do over a period of days. Keep your journal with you, and jot things down as they come to
mind or use the following text box to save your reflections here.
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Homework Lesson 2
In your journal, reflect on the category of the attacking mother. With care, write down any memories
or experiences you had with an attacking mother in your life. How did it make you feel as a child?
How did you react? This is another practice that can be done over several days. Take your time
connecting with your young self and engaging these feelings and memories.
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Homework Lesson 3
Find a quiet place to journal. Center yourself before you begin by taking a few deep breaths. Try to
remember yourself as a child. How did that little girl feel? What did that little girl need? Meditate on
the question of whether your mother was absent in any way, writing down your reflections.
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Homework Lesson 4
In your journal, reflect on your experience of feeling engulfed in your childhood. Was this something
you experienced? If so, with care, write down any memories that come to mind. Be sure to take time
to breathe if you feel any strong emotions stirring. Allow yourself time to pause if necessary.
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Homework Lesson 5
Take a moment to invite divine compassion and love into your memories and feelings. Observe your
emotions without letting them take hold of you--be a witnessing presence to them as they pass,
noting whether they are gentle or intense. When you're ready, reflect on your own coping responses
to the mother wound. How does the wound show its face in your life? How do you see your
experience reflected in this lesson? Be honest but also gentle with yourself. We will work on healing
your wound in future lessons. Again, know that anger and other powerful feelings may arise. Take the
time to write about them in your journal.
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Homework Lesson 6
Sit quietly for a moment before beginning. Allow your mind the freedom to wander back in time,
calling up any memories of your grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Picture their faces. Their
homes. The words they spoke to you. Photographs you saw of them. If you didn't know your
grandmothers, try to recall any stories you were told about them. Allow your imagination to paint a
picture of their lives. Then, in your journal, reflect on any wounds you imagine they might have carried
in light of your relationship to your own mother. Imagine your mother as a little girl. Imagine your
grandmother(s) as a little girl. How might they have been wounded by their own mothers?
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Homework Lesson 7
Allow yourself to be vulnerable as you do this exercise. Begin slowly. Close your eyes and first imagine
that basement within yourself. What do you see there? Carry yourself through that space, observing
what you see. It could be estranged relationships, codependency, addiction, anger, fear--any and all
of the broken parts of ourselves. You may feel pain as you do this, but even in your pain, look at these
things with loving eyes. Imagine a warm light shining out from your heart onto each broken piece,
illuminating each one. When you get to the furthest reaches of this basement what do you see there?
Shine the brightest, most loving light of your heart on it. In your journal, put words to what you're
seeing and feeling. Give your shame a voice. Allow it to speak, and listen with love and tenderness to
what it has to say. Take your time writing this. You may find that you need to pause for a break.
Whenever you feel finished, lay your hand upon these words and meditate loving kindness,
compassion, and freedom over them and yourself.
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Homework Lesson 8
In your journal, reflect on the emotions coming up for you as you move through this course. What
feelings want to join you on your journey? Allow them in without judgment. Be with them. What is it
like to be with them? Let this exercise be a process of feeling and spending time with your emotions,
and write down what they wish to tell you about your mother, your self, and your healing. As you do
this, you might also choose to write down what your own heart needs to grieve around your mother
wound.
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Homework Lesson 9
In your journal, spend some time reflecting on forgiveness. What does forgiveness mean to you?
When you imagine forgiving your mother, what feelings arise? How do you feel when you meditate on
forgiving yourself? What would forgiveness look like for you?
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Homework Lesson 10
Consider the state of your own inner life. This is something to reflect on in your journal moving
forward after this course. How many years have you been in the deep forest? Are you willing to
plunge your arms into the water in order to rescue your child soul? In the morning or in the evening
before bed, find stillness and meditate on your soul's need, even if you still feel disconnected from her.
What does she want to express and how does she want to express it? Perhaps you will draw, hike,
garden, bake, or sculpt. Maybe you will take a trip, dance, apply for school, or write a letter. Or maybe
you will simply cry. Wherever you are on this healing journey, continue to allow her to speak to you
and through you. Tend to her always.

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