07/08/2025
ℹ️🌿 BREAKING CYCLES OF GENERATIONAL TRAUMA |
As I laid awake at night pregnant with my first child, a million thoughts would race through my mind. Will I be a good mom? I don’t feel maternal. Will I be able to be selfless? I like doing what I want. How will I deal with this change? Will it change me forever? Will I become my mom?
That last one always hit me like a tonne of bricks.
Being launched into adult life after a turbulent, traumatic and unstable childhood, I was determined to make a better life for myself than I had experienced up until that point. I got married to an amazing, kind and stable man. I worked hard, we bought a home and most importantly, I worked on my mental health.
Sure, it was a difficult childhood but I was out of it now, happily married, financially stable, emotionally stable and in control of my future. I got to a place where I felt good about who I was, my place in the world and also the state of my well being. I felt good about the kind of person I became. I forgave those who hurt me and I began to believe that the past was in the past.
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