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FEELINGS OF SHAME AND GUILT

There may be many reasons why children experience rejection. It may be because they are not the gender that their mother wanted or expected. But whatever the reason, the consequences are that the child feels worthless and ashamed. They find it difficult to look other people in the eye because they see the rejection that was there in their mother’s eyes. They feel guilty about being a burden to their mother and unconsciously have a lifelong feeling of having to pay off a debt for the simple fact of just being there. Some even think that if I am no longer here, then I am doing the world a favour. This can easily lead to unconscious and covert suicidal acts. Or later in life it might express itself as the person feeling guilty that their needs are a burden to (Mother) Earth (in other words Mama) and they may commit themselves to saving the world from ‘climate catastrophe’.

LOVELESS ANCESTRAL LINES

What happens to my fundamental need for love if my mother, due to her own life history, is not at all capable of loving me as her child in an embodied way from the bottom of her heart? What if she herself did not get her needs for love met, because her mother was incapable of loving her? And if the grandmother