The Root of Mother Wounds

So how do these mother wounds form? We all have an archetype baked into us of the great mother of this sort of idealized version of what we need from mom, what we desire from Mom. And those are some pretty straightforward things. There's safety, trust, nurturing, care, compassion, being able to go to mom when you're hurt or scared or wounded. Those types of things. Mom is really meant to be the womb of safety and the place of safety that every child goes to, but specifically for young boys. And in doing this, you as a child learn that women are safe, the world is a safe place, those types of things, because in the first few years of your development, there's really, especially in the first 18 months, there's not really a lot of difference between what your body and your nervous system experiences and what mom is going through. Another way of saying that is what she feels you feel.