A Prayer for Mothers with Shitty Mothers

Posted by Meredith Broome in abortion, body positive, body positivity, coaching, compassion, daughters, forgiveness, healing, mean girls, mothering, mothers, parenting, parents, sexual trauma, somatic, somatic coaching, trauma healing, Uncategorized

A Prayer for Mothers with Shitty Mothers Please protect us from our difficult mothers. Please protect us from our critical mothers. Please protect us from our mothers, Who seem to have forgotten that we are not the worst parts of themselves. Please protect me from becoming a difficult mother. Please protect me from myself. My…Read more »

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

“You’re Married to the Russian!” and other missed opportunities

Posted by Meredith Broome in coaching, compassion, forgiveness, parenting, parents, somatic, somatic coaching, trauma healing, Uncategorized

I am watching for my daughter in the pack of ice skaters looping around the rink when a woman taps me on the shoulder. When I turn toward her, she nods and smiles at me, as if she is expecting an answer to a question she asked the last time we saw one another. Her…Read more »

August 28, 2018

Let’s All Practice Being Uncomfortable

Posted by Meredith Broome in compassion, fat-phobia, forgiveness, healing, parents, sexual trauma, trauma healing, Uncategorized

In the 20 years from when I finished college until March of 2012, when my father died, I didn’t write a word about him. In fact, I hardly wrote anything at all. He took up too much space, held so many words hostage in my brain, I didn’t have enough letters left to squeeze in…Read more »

i am under-grounded

do no harm, but take no shit!

Category: trauma healing

A Prayer for Mothers with Shitty Mothers

“You’re Married to the Russian!” and other missed opportunities

Let’s All Practice Being Uncomfortable