Healing the Mother Wound with author Perdita Finn

Does your heart ache when you hear the word 'mother?' Maybe you miss the mother who is gone…or maybe you long for the mother you never had… Is there any relationship as fraught with emotion as the one we have with our mother? According to today's guest, Perdita Finn, author of the new book, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, it's never too late to receive the mothering you long for!  If you don't know Perdita Finn, let me introduce you: Perdita Finn is a writer, a woodwife, an old witch. She has been a chestnut tree in a vanished grove, a she-bear dreaming inside the mountain, and always a mother to blood kin, soul kin, fur kin and odd kin. The dead have, over the past thirty odd years, led her back to the old ways of magic and miracles. She is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World. With her husband Clark Strand, she wrote The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.   In this episode, Perdita shares how healing her relationship with her mother helped her heal her relationship with motherhood itself.  Through research she discovered that none of us were ever meant to be mothered by just one person, and the ache of longing to belong can be soothed when we connect with the infinite mothers available to us on the other side. I highly recommend you connect with Perdita and check out her upcoming classes and events at https://takebackthemagic.com/   Ps- to purchase the book Mothers of Magic, click here for the Show Notes   Key Learnings: 1)    Perdita's mother was a powerful, beautiful, creative, and talented woman. She was a costume designer in the 1930's and was the first women to go to Yale Drama School for design and was forced to become a suburban housewife. By the end of her life she was drinking too much, was resentful and angry. Perdita realized how many women suffered the same fate, of having to squish their talent and light in our current patriarchal society. 2)    When Perdita became a mom for the first time, she realized that the system was set up for her to fail. In indigenous cultures, children are born into kin, and on any given day, a baby will be held by at least seventeen people, and will be fed by many, many women. The idea of one woman being everything to a child is not only ridiculous, it will never be enough. 3)    Yet despite this lack of mothering in our society, there are an infinite number of mothers waiting for you to call on them! When you connect with the vast mothers on the other side, you will finally feel that sense of care and belonging you have been searching for.   "It's never too late to receive the mothering you long for." - Perdita Finn   Click here to purchase Mothers of Magic by Perdita Finn   Click here to learn about Perdita's upcoming classes   If you love the image on the wall behind me of Mother Mary Blessing the World, you can order your own museum quality copy at www.deepaliu.com