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Mothers Grow old
Mothers get old. Their kids grow up and scatter, close to home or far away. The house, shopping, cooking, and cleaning provide plenty to accomplish. Working mothers throw themselves deeper into their work identity, and husbands factor in the mix to varying degrees. Skin wrinkles, bodies droop, and stiffness closes in, exposing regressed expression Tension Patterns.
It comes time to give birth to themselves through Old Habit Release. Suppose they engaged in Mothering Control as a method of keeping everything together. In that case, they might find that a sledgehammer works best for demolishing fortified systems that, in the long run, cultivate Core Access ShutDown. Mothers carry life and give birth from the interior of their bodies, but they don’t get Ph.D. credit as Core Experts.
Core ShutDown is rampant, a plague speaking through generational and cultural influence, spanning a vast territory that the Core Concept Exchange can’t begin to comprehend. It’s time to step up as the Mother of SelfExpression. For some, this could be an Xtreme Trek embracing the InnerMother; for others, the trek might be a fun Zipline.
