The Mother Wound
The Mother Wound & The Sacred Return
A soul conversation with Celestino Cornielle
🎧 [Listen to the full episode on the podcast
Let’s name it.
That ache behind your smile.
The one that whispers:
“You’re too much.”
“You’re not enough.”
“You have to earn love.”
That’s the Mother Wound.
And it doesn’t begin with you — it’s braided through generations. It’s the silent inheritance passed through glances, silences, unmet needs. It lives in your nervous system, in your relationships, in the spaces where you shrink so others can stay comfortable.
It’s not just about your mother.
It’s about the Mother — the archetype, the lineage, the void.
And in a world that taught us to bypass, numb, or bury our grief, healing this wound is not just brave… it’s revolutionary.
What Is the Mother Wound?
It’s the ache of not being held in your wholeness.
Of learning to please instead of express.
Of learning to perform instead of be.
It shows up as:
* Chronic people-pleasing
* Over-giving in relationships
* Feeling invisible or “too much”
* Seeking approval at the cost of authenticity
* Shame around softness, need, or emotion
But beneath every symptom… is a soul longing.
To be seen. To be nourished. To be loved without condition.
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### 🌿 My Conversation with Celestino Cornielle
When Celestino and I sat down for this conversation, we didn’t plan to go this deep — but the Mother Wound doesn’t stay on the surface. It asks to be felt, witnessed, honored.
Celestino opened his heart and story: the ache of abandonment, the yearning for a mother’s gaze, the unraveling that came through plant medicine, prayer, and ceremony. He spoke of the grief that cracked him open — and the ancestral weight that alchemized into power.
This isn’t a conversation about blame.
It’s about belonging.
To yourself. To your lineage. To the Divine Mother.
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Inside the Episode — What We Explore:
How triggers are sacred portals, not problems
Every time you're activated? That’s a doorway to deeper truth — not a sign you’re broken.
Why grief and pleasure are both holy
You don't have to choose between sorrow and joy. Healing lives where both are allowed.
Rituals that return you to self-mothering
We talk practices that nourish, reparent, and root you — from flower baths to ancestral altar work.
How to reclaim the inner child without bypassing the ache
This isn’t about pretending it didn’t hurt. It’s about holding yourself through it with devotion.
The Divine Mother as archetype, energy, and Earth
Healing the Mother Wound reconnects us to something deeper than any one person — the original source of love, the feminine principle, the body of Gaia herself.
This Is Ancestral Work
The Mother Wound didn’t start with you — and it doesn’t have to end with you.
Every time you choose presence over perfection…
Every time you rest instead of push…
Every time you speak instead of silence yourself…
You heal not only yourself — you heal backwards and forwards in time.
You rewrite the story. You midwife Eden’s return.
Ready to Go Deeper?
This blog is the soft landing.
The podcast is the full-body portal.
Listen with your hands on your heart, your feet on the Earth, your breath slow and deep.
🎧 [Click here to listen now on the podcast]
May this episode be a mirror, a balm, a reclamation.
You are worthy of love that doesn't require you to disappear.
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With tenderness + truth,
Jessica
