Love Yourself & Reclaim Your LIfe: Breaking the Chains of Dysfunctional Mothering

"Love Yourself & Reclaim Your LIfe: Breaking the Chains of Dysfunctional Mothering" is one woman’s journey of facing the consequences of growing up in an emotionally empty household. From hiding in her brother’s shadows to taking responsibility for the family’s breakdown, she had to face her formed inner belief of worthlessness to start the healing process. Through the birth of her first child, she stopped beating herself up to start learning how to re-parent herself so that she could responsibly parent her child. Then came marriage which opened up the well of internal shame; her defense mechanism was to shut down and push love away. To clean out the lies, limiting beliefs, trauma and unresolved emotions that held her back from being able to love and be loved in return, she choose to honor her feelings and release the emotional grief energy that had enveloped her. Through the unconditional support and acceptance of her husband, she was able to build trust, resiliency and forgiveness of self. Happiness was now within her grasp; all she had to do was choose it for herself everyday, in every way. She wrote a workbook, called " Wound to Wellbeing" organizing all the lessons she learnt to be able to take responsibility for her experience and gain her life back.You can access this workbook on Marla Hickerson's profile.