Mothers - wounded women become damaged mothers
Mothers - wounded women become damaged mothers
“Unfortunately, in a world where women in general are degraded and devalued - and have been for thousands of years - the topic of mothers becomes a very emotionally charged and confusing issue. How can a society cherish mothers when we don’t cherish women? How can a woman who is not taught to cherish herself teach her children to cherish themselves?” “Our traditional cultural concepts of what a man is, of what a woman is, are twisted, distorted, almost comically bloated stereotypes of what masculine and feminine really are.” “It is somehow appropriate - in a sick, twisted, kind of way - that Earth Day and Mother’s Day are so close together. Civilized society has been raping our mother Earth for as long as it has had the technology to do so. Women have been raped, not just physically by men, but also emotionally, mentally, and spiritually by the belief systems of “civilization” (both Western and Eastern) since the dawn of recorded history.” *** “‘Poor’ Adam, who was just being a man (that is, he just wants to get in Eve’s pants) does what Eve wants him to and eats the apple. So Eve gets the blame for Adam not having boundaries. Now is that stupid or what? And you wondered where Codependence started.”
On this page is a column by Spiritual teacher/codependence therapist about how a society that degrades and devalues women cannot possibly produce healthy mothers.
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Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2008 by Robert Burney PO Box 235401 Encinitas CA 92023. (The Column “Mother’s Day” by Robert Burney originally appeared in the Information Press of San Luis Obispo California)
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Mothers.htm