I might as well have been teaching in Greek because there wasn't some of that practical experience.

Yeah.

Oh, I love this question because I think when I think about like my pedagogy and how I'm teaching, I open up the space by saying, I know you're a good student.

You wouldn't have gotten this far if you were not a good student.

Now let's talk about your humanity.

Now let's talk about your professional identity.

Now let's talk about unlearning some of the things that you've been taught that may be hindering your efficacy, right? And that message is not for everybody because sometimes the conditioning is so deep, it is overwhelm and shock to the nervous system.

We would love it.

It changes how you understand caregiving, how you understand sacrifice, how you understand your own mother, and sometimes how you understand the wounds that you carry.

carry.Today, we're gonna hone in and talk about what happens psychologically when the daughter becomes the mother.

There's a term or a definition that we will talk about, and that term is matrescence.

Matrescence is the identity shift of becoming a mother and how this transition often reshapes the mother-daughter relationship in all of its complexity, power, and sometimes very painful ways.

The word matrescence describes the developmental transition into motherhood.

This definition, this term was coined back in the 1970s, and it's meant to describe a process similar to adolescence.

So just like adolescence is the psychological and identity transition into adulthood, matrescence is the psychological and identity transition into motherhood.