A short spoken message aimed at mothers who have experienced betrayal (divorce/separation) offering compassionate, practical advice. The speaker emphasizes (1) practicing self-compassion while healing from betrayal and (2) having age-appropriate conversations with children—naming emotions, reassuring children they are not responsible, and normalizing crying as a response to hurt feelings.
Please have compassion on yourself. It is so hard to be a mom in our society. The expectations are unrealistic. But when you're a mom that's been betrayed and you're trying to heal from that, you have to have compassion for yourself. The second thing is having age appropriate conversations with your children. They sense what's going on. They see things and they have questions. And so when they say things like, mommy, are you sad? You go, oh, no, no, Mommy's not sad. No, Mommy is sad. Know how sometimes you get sad when someone hurts your feelings? Well, I'm sad because my feelings are hurt. And putting it in language that they can understand and also helping them know that they're not responsible for that, that you are an adult and you're going to take care of yourself, but that crying is normal. When your feelings get hurt.
