Safe Haven Mama

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To the millennial moms out there breaking cycles, I see you 🫶🏼
04/11/2026

To the millennial moms out there breaking cycles, I see you 🫶🏼

Anything you would add?
04/09/2026

Anything you would add?

04/09/2026

Hint: it’s not some magical formula of what to say or how to be in any given situation.

Instead it’s facing yourself - your past.

It’s looking at what went well and what didn’t in your childhood. It’s understanding how things both negative and positive impacted you. What might you want to repeat and what might you want to rethink from a parenting perspective.

If you’re breaking cycles, it’s not enough to just do the opposite. With this tactic you may be likely to overcompensate.

For example, if you had a really controlling mom, you may want to do the opposite, but in the process you lean into permissive parenting when you have a child who really needs kind, but firm boundaries.

Sometimes we can end up parenting the child within instead of the child in front of us and your child may have unique needs, different from your own.

At times naming Mother Hunger and healing from the impact is a necessary part of breaking cycles.

Mother Hunger is coined by Kelly McDaniel to name the deep attachment injury involving a lack of nurture, protection, and/or guidance from your own mother.

I’ll be talking more and more here about Mother Hunger and how to heal. In the meantime, grab Kelly’s book on Mother Hunger.

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