Being Unmothered

Learn about my daughters and how I see a healed version of myself in them. I will also talk about resources and how to use them to help you on your healing journey.

Three years after my mom moved out, I am finally moving in with her. Those nights of crying myself to sleep, missing my mother, are finally over. Or are they?

Listen to learn what is what like that first year after my mother had left our home and how my brother and I had to bear adult responsibilities.

Learn about who my mother was and how her storytelling both helped me feel compassion for her and made me feel invalidated.

Listen as Lyla recalls her earliest memory of her unmother that shows the complicated feelings this 3 year old child had about her mother and how this pattern continued throughout her life, causing her to choose the wrong romantic partners and struggle to love herself as an adult.

In the inaugural episode of Being Unmothered, Lyla, an unmothered daughter, opens up about her journey of navigating life without the nurturing presence of a mother. She shares her personal story of love, abandonment, and the complex emotions tied to being raised by an unmother. Through candid reflections, Lyla explores the challenges of becoming a mother herself and the deep-seated feelings of lo...