Sublime

The third layer comes into view when we look at how we mother ourselves and find the same deficits that were present in our actual mothers. We see that we don’t know how to support or encourage ourselves, don’t know how to be patient and tender, don’t know how to take into account our needs and limitations. Here, there is a hole in our inner

for hadn’t we always dreamed of becoming our mother? Wasn’t that all we had ever once wanted to be?)