Being an empath means you can actually feel another person’s happiness or sadness in your own body.
In my inner work coaching practice, I have found empaths to have an exaggerated stress response to the wound. The mother wound is a condition in which the mother projects unhealed aspects of herself onto her child causing emotional and or physical trauma.
According to Judith Orloff, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People in empaths, the brain’s mirror neuron system – a specialized group of cells that are responsible for compassion- is thought to be hyperactive. As a result, empaths can absorb other people’s energies (both positive and negative) into their own bodies. At times it may even be difficult to tell if you are feeling your own emotions or someone else’s.
When the mother is unable, unwilling or unavailable to heal for the child to live a happy healthy and whole life, the child must learn to live in loving detachment from mama, drama and the trauma.
MDT Telltale Signs
You feel lonely
You feel out of sync with yourself
You need constant approval
Your feelings are easily hurt
Emotionally anxious and exhausted
Difficulty being in the present
What people say and do is about you
Attitudes and behaviors of others adversely affect your own
You attract insecure people
Identity based on external evaluation
Your insecurities are projected onto others
You struggle to make your own decisions
You are a poor judge of character
You are the family “caretaker” or “black sheep”
Striking up an emotionally honest conversation with mama or your child terrifies you
You need help but do not know who to trust or how to ask for it
Sick & tired of being sick & tired”
We cover the first half here and the second half in part two.
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Telltale Signs of Mama Drama Trauma PART I