Mother and daughter
develop your own Good Mother inside.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
Meister Eckhart, in the 13th century broadened the meaning and responsibility for this work when he said:
We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.
We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.
Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton • The Mothering Spirit | May 11, 2025 | Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton
mother substitutes, and best friends.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
woman remembers that she can be both fierce and generous at the same time.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
larger-than-life archetype of the Good Mother.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
Every new mother begins as a child-mother. A child-mother is old enough to have babies and has good instincts in the right direction, but she needs the mothering of an older woman or women who essentially prompt, encourage, and support her in her mothering of her children.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
My mother and I each soon grew two faces: one for my father and the rest of the world, and one for us when we found ourselves alone with each other.
Jamaica Kincaid • Annie John
“If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a
daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”
Excerpt From
The unbearable lightness of being
Milan Kundera
Tehanu by Ursula le Guin pg 179
“It is pleasant to be mothered by a daughter, and to behave as a daughter to one’s daughter.”