Mel Robbins
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Oh, that's beautiful.
That's really beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I've come to believe more that, no, it's just all reactive.
They're just in their own reactive traumatic cycle.
They've got their own longing for mothering they never got, and they're just reacting, reacting, reacting.
There's no thinking at all.
It's all emotion.
You're just at the mercy of it.
So if you're in a situation where you've already said, you might not want to have this conversation with your mom because unless they're doing the work,
It's a very confronting thing to say to somebody.
It is.
And I felt that like, oh my God, I've caused this.
I'm the world's worst, blah, blah, blah.
The defensiveness is real.
When you look at it, the sense of guilt and betrayal as a daughter is real.
And I think it's easier for most daughters to do the work to hold space to understand
what their mom might've been dealing with, but it's harder to also hold space for yourself.
And the truth of what you didn't receive.