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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Today we are going to be doing a little healing work around the idea of mother.

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We're going to do a little pre-Mother's Day session here today on Supernatural Saturday.

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This has been a, for those of you that know my story, for those of you that have heard

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me teach over the years, you know that mother has been a very, very hurtful, hard thing

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for me, and also a very healing thing for me.

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And so you're like, how can that be possible, Jackie?

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Well, it can be possible, and it is, and it has been.

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And so I want to help all of you today.

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I hope that we will all leave this call more available to Holy Spirit.

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I believe that mother wounds specifically have a huge impact on us being able to receive

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the ministry of Holy Spirit, what He is doing in our lives.

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When you think about the Godhead, when you think about Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

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Holy Spirit is the most feminine of the three.

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It's obviously not a person, so not feminine, but the characteristics and the traits are

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most like what we consider the divine feminine.

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The Holy Spirit is described as a counselor, is described as a comforter, is described

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as wisdom.

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Proverbs talks about wisdom in the feminine, and the feminine form, it says that lady wisdom

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and wisdom, not that men are not wise, obviously they are.

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This has nothing to do with genders.

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This has to do with the attributes of God.

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All of us know, if we've read the beginning of the book, that God made us in His image,

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male and female, He made us in His image.

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God is both masculine and God is both feminine, and that means Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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So all the aspects of God, when you put us together, man and woman, we show the fullness

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of God in a lot of ways, and especially when you put us in family, then we show the fullness

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of God, three in one.

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So many beautiful things to be seen there and to be taught there, but we are not going

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to teach about that today.

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We are just simply going to talk about this thing called mother.

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We talk so much about father wounds, we do.

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We talk so much about God being a father, and what is a father?

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Obviously God is not a person, right?

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He's a spirit.

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So how can we call Him our father?

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Because it has to do with the role that He plays in our life.

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It has to do with an identity that He gives us.

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It has to do with the DNA that we carry.

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It has to do with the idea of father, and I know a lot of us have stuff around dad and

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daddy wounds and father stuff, and maybe we'll go after that on Father's Day next month,

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but we don't talk enough, I don't think, about mother wounds and healing from mother wounds

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because mother wounds have a lot to do with your identity.

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Did you know, this is scientifically, sociologically true, let me talk to you about this really

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quick.

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In a family dynamic that's going to be healthy, if a child is born a female, she'll be with

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a mother until she's about eight or nine years old, okay?

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And all children need to be with their mothers, and for some of us, that wasn't possible.

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Our mother was sick, maybe our mother had passed away, our mother was not mentally available,

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our mother was a single mother, so she had to work, and so then she wasn't with us physically,

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she didn't have a lot of time or bandwidth for us.

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We'll go through all of that, but for whatever reason, we did not get the nurturing that

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we needed early in life.

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You guys, believe it or not, this is where attachment styles come from.

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Attachment styles don't come from dad, they come from mom.

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One of our success stories, a couple here in Austin that I match made, I actually introduced

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them to each other, they got married, I officiated their wedding, they just had their first baby.

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And the baby wants nothing to do with dad.

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The baby just wants mom, right?

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Because mom is where the milk is.

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Mom is what baby has been inside of mom this entire time, been growing and hearing mom's

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voice and feeling mom's heartbeat, and she's been in there.

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And so she just wants mom, I mean, dad can hold her and stuff, but she wants mom.

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And so children, they need us, they need us as mothers, they need their mothers, they

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need the feminine, and in early life, in the very beginning, very beginning, to feel safe,

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to feel secure.

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Do you know that a child, when it's born, it doesn't even know that it's a separate

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person from the mother?

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Did you know that?

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It doesn't even know that it's a separate person from the mother.

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That's why the that's why children go through that separation anxiety eventually,

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you know, because then they're finally starting to figure out that, you know,

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that they're a separate person from the mother and that the mother could actually leave.

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But is she coming back?

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And then as soon as a child is able to see that, OK, yeah, she left.

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She put me in my crib.

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She left the room.

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But every time I cry, guess what?

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She pokes her head and she comes back.

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What does that do?

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That begins to form secure attachment.

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When I cry, my caretaker responds.

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People are always like, why is that baby crying?

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Well, because it wants something and it doesn't have language yet.

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It wants something.

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It wants food.

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It wants its nappy changed.

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It wants, you know, just comfort.

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It just wants attention.

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It just wants to know that you're there.

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But some of us, we didn't have that.

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Our mothers were distracted.

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They were doing all kinds of other things.

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So here's what the attachment experiment did.

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They put children in a room with their favorite toys.

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These are toddlers, three to four years old.

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They put them in a room with with toys that a three or four year old would love to play with,

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like an exciting toys for that age range.

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And that room had a two-way mirror, just like, you know, the detective shows.

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It had a two-way mirror.

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And then they would ask the caregiver, whoever that was, whoever was raising that child,

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whether it was grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, an aunt, you know, a foster parent.

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It doesn't matter.

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Whoever that person was that that child knew as their primary caregiver was with them in the room.

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And then they would ask that person to kind of sneak out while the child was busy playing.

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The children that screamed and cried and could not be consoled until that caretaker came back in the room.

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And even when they came back in the room, the child was done playing.

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It wasn't going to let the caretaker out of its sight.

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It was going to hang on to the caretaker's leg.

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It was just not interested in playing at all anymore.

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Those were the anxious attachers.

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The ones that, you know, they are afraid that your love is going to be withdrawn.

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They're afraid that, you know, you're going to disappear and that you're never going to come back or you're not going to love them anymore.

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They were the anxious attached children.

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The children that cried for a little bit, you know, cried, you know, a couple cries like, hey, where's my caretaker?

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But then they kind of just started, they started playing still because they were confident that, yeah, they're not here.

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I don't know where they went, but they'll be back.

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And then when the caretaker came back in the room, they went over the caretaker, you know, hugged him or kissed him or whatever, and then kept playing.

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Because they just knew they were confident that that love was not going to be withdrawn from them forever.

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That love was going to continue to be available to them, that they were safe.

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They were safe.

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Yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.

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I'm in a strange room and my caretaker left, but they'll be back.

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They're not going to leave me here.

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I know that.

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I'm confident in them.

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I trust them.

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And then the third type of child was a type of child who didn't even notice that the caretaker left.

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They continue to play oblivious of the caretaker's absence because they were used to the caretaker not being there.

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They were used to the caretaker, you know, not meeting their needs.

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They were very independent in their spirits because they had already learned how to take care of themselves.

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I was that third child.

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I was that third child from a very young age.

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Just...

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Guys, I remember looking at the want ads.

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Okay, remember I was born in the 70s.

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I was born in 75.

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I remember looking at the want ads.

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Remember, it was all about newspapers back in the day.

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Newspapers and magazines.

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The internet didn't exist.

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Computers didn't exist.

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None of that existed.

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We got the newspaper every single morning.

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I would read the cartoons and then I would go straight to the want ads and I would look for jobs and look for apartments.

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You guys, I was like 10 years old.

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I was 10 and I was already trying to find a way out.

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What do I got to do?

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How much money is this?

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What's got to happen next?

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That would have been like 1985.

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And some of you, you understand.

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Okay, so in a healthy family dynamic, the children would both be with mom, whether you're a boy or a girl, until you're about eight.

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And then at eight years old, the daughter would kind of gravitate towards becoming a daddy's girl.

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Okay, wanting to be with dad, you know, dad's the best kind of thing.

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And she would probably stay that way mentally and emotionally until puberty.

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And in puberty, she would gravitate back towards mom.

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Remember, this isn't a healthy.

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healthy family dynamic.

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This is according to the, you know, the social experts, the psychological experts.

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And then she would never leave mom's side.

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After puberty, yeah, she loves dad.

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She's close to dad.

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But after puberty and on, you know, she would be, you know, in mom's charge, gravitating

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towards mom.

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Boys, different.

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Boys would be with mom until puberty.

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They'd be with mom until puberty.

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And what are they learning?

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They're learning emotional intelligence in a lot of ways.

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They're learning, they're being nurtured, they're being cared for.

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This is against the American idea that, oh, you know, that boy's got to get out here.

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He's got to work hard.

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He's got to do...

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It isn't until puberty that now the boy is kind of under dad's charge, fully.

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So he kind of gravitates towards dad when he gets to puberty.

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And then he stays with dad.

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He learns how to become a man.

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He already has all of the emotional framework from being with mom.

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And now he's with dad and he's learning how to do, like he's learning how to, what masculinity

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looks like, act it out.

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But a lot of people aren't raised this way.

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They say, hey, this is the best way.

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This is the way it should be.

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But many people, most people did not have that type of framework in their childhood.

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We want to focus on mothers today and maybe we'll focus on fathers and I'll have David

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be involved with that.

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But what I said at the beginning of this call is true.

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The idea of mother is the thing that hurt me the most in my life.

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My first broken heart came from my mom.

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My mom was a single mom and, you know, me and my brother, my brother's 18 months older

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than me.

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It was just the three of us.

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My mom used to sing this song.

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I don't remember who sings it, but the lyrics are something like, she was just 16 when I

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came to be, we grew up together.

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My mom, my mom, a child in me, like my mama was a child.

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And that's true.

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My mama was, my mama was a teenager when she had my brother.

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And then she was barely 20 years old when she had me.

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And she was married to our father who was not a good man at that time, a very immature

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young man who was, you know, doing a lot of bad things, had some mental health issues,

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addiction issues, fidelity issues.

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A lot of things were happening.

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And my mom was going through a lot of things after having been raised in a family that

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was very destructive already.

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So, but, you know, as a little child, I didn't know any of that.

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All I knew is that mom was never around.

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Mom could not be found.

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Mom was someone that we needed to take care of and that we needed to protect because she

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couldn't take care of herself.

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I remember many times as a child, finding my mom passed out somewhere, drunk somewhere.

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She wasn't an addict, but she would just drink herself sick when this man would not show

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up or not be where he was supposed to be.

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And she would just do things like this sporadically.

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And, you know, we would find her somewhere.

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We lived on the, we lived on the beach, we lived on the lake.

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We would drag her up.

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My brother, we'd drag her up from the beach, all 110 pounds of her, because she was just

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a tiny thing and put her to bed, you know, we'd find her in the garage sitting in her

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car because she had barely made it home from whatever escapade, you know, she was on with

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this, with this no good guy and, you know, cried herself to sleep in her car and, you

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know, pulled her in the house.

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And, you know, this is the kind of mama that we had when we were little.

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And she, you know, tried three times to find a better man.

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Three times my mom was married before I was even 10 years old and none of them were good.

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And it wasn't great.

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It wasn't a great childhood.

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And I loved my mom.

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But I didn't realize until just recently, I became deeply, I became deeply responsible

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for her, deeply responsible for her wellbeing and for her safety, carrying a lot of her

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trauma in my own body.

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See, some of you guys think that your intrusive thoughts and the things that you're dealing

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with, you think they come from you, the things that you're worried about, but they don't.

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They come from things that you started carrying of your own mothers when you were in her womb.

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Her worries, her fears, the things that she was thinking about, the things that, you know,

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gave her nightmares and woke her up in the middle of the night.

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You were carrying those things, carrying them in your own body.

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And I just recently, because my mom has passed, my mom's been passed for six years.

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In fact, my mom's birthday is next Wednesday.

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And I just recently realized I was just so caring,

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so much of the things that haunted her.

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And I want us to let go of those things today.

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I'm hoping that that's what's going to happen.

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So tomorrow's Mother's Day and you know,

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this weekend is maybe beautiful for some of you

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and deeply painful for others.

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For those of you that have great, incredible moms,

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you know, this session is still for you

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because you've probably been hurt by the feminine

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in some way in your life.

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Maybe not your mother, but the feminine.

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You know, some woman somewhere, a friend, a colleague,

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a boss, a coach, someone, someone, a spiritual mentor,

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someone in your life.

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So this weekend, tomorrow,

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people will be celebrating amazing mothers

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and some people like me will be grieving mothers

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that we lost and others will be grieving mothers

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that they never really had.

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You know what?

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You know, it has been hard since my mom passed away,

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but I have to say this is that most of my life

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from about 14 years old on, I was grieving my mother,

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even though she was alive.

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There were many years that I had to be no contact

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with my mom.

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She wasn't healthy enough for me to have any contact with.

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Every time I would get any amount of healing,

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just even one conversation with her could undo so much of it

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and I just, I had to grieve her when she was alive.

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So some of you are like that, you're estranged.

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You're hurting, you need boundaries with mom,

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but you feel really guilty for having boundaries.

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You know, let me see the hands of people who,

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mom's really not a safe person.

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She's still alive, but she's not really that safe.

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You love her, but you kind of love her from a distance

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because, you know, not that you don't see her,

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you might see her, but you know,

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you just know that you have to have good boundaries

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with her because anything's possible.

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And then everyone, keep those hands up

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and then everyone whose mothers are past,

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let's get your hands up.

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Your mom is no longer on the earth.

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Doesn't mean that she was a bad mom,

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it just means she's no longer here

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and obviously that causes its own amount of grief, right?

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And a lot of us deal with, hey, you know,

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we really love our parents, we love our moms,

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but we also know that they didn't become the person

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that they could have become,

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especially as you grow in knowledge

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and you know what's available,

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your parents stopped somewhere along the road.

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They didn't grow in their understanding of God.

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They didn't grow in their understanding of family.

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They didn't grow in their understanding of, you know,

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what they could have, inner healing, you know,

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physical healing, whatever it was.

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They didn't go any further.

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You guys know what I'm talking about?

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And that breaks our hearts, right?

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Because we love them and we want them

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to experience what we're experiencing.

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But they either didn't do it and they went to heaven

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and of course now you guys, they're having all of it, right?

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But we wanted to experience them having it.

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We wanted to experience them having a good life.

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We wanted to experience them being out of pain.

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We wanted to experience them forgiving whoever hurt them.

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We wanted to see that, didn't we?

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We wanted to see that.

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I know I wanted to see it.

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My mom did some of that work before she passed

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and I'm so thankful that she did.

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I'm so thankful I got to see it,

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but there was so many other things that I wanted for her.

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My mom was an incredible woman

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and she could have done so much more with her life

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and it grieves me even though she's not alive.

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And I'm like, Jackie, this ship has sailed.

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Why does this still grieve you?

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But sometimes it still grieves me.

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So regardless of whether you have an amazing mother,

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she's your best friend, I'm my daughter's best friend.

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I'm my daughter's, I'm their best friend.

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That's why I said that motherhood,

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motherhood is something that has hurt me,

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my mom's motherhood, and it's also something

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that has healed me, my own motherhood.

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So whether you're estranged with your mother,

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whether you still feel angry, maybe you feel guilty,

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maybe you're hurting, maybe you're not,

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maybe you have boundaries, maybe you don't,

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maybe some of you are the mother that I'm talking about

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and you're carrying shame.

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You're carrying shame because you know

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that you were not the best mother that you could be

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and your children are grown now.

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And maybe some of you still have children at home

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and you feel like you're not being the mother

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that you wanna be because you're single

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and because you haven't been able to give them

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a good representation of a father

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or because you don't have enough time

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because you're working or you've made mistakes

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and you've been in relationships with people

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who have hurt you and your children

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have been along for that ride and now you're carrying shame

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because you never wanted your children to have pain

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and yet here we are.

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And then there's a whole other category.

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We have some of you that you really wanted to be a mother,

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but life unfolded differently

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than you dreamed and imagined.

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For whatever reason,

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you didn't have a chance to become a mother.

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And maybe you still have a chance

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to become a mother biologically.

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All of us have a chance to become a mother to someone,

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regardless of your age.

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But for some of you,

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that time of reproductive life has gone.

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You're in your 50s, 60s,

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maybe 70s, you don't have any biological children,

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and that's a deep wound.

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Maybe you even felt like,

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you're not just that you missed out on something,

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but that God failed you

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because you always wanted marriage and family.

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And for whatever reason, it didn't happen.

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So this morning is not supposed to be a downer.

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It's obviously not about condemnation.

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It's about healing.

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Because some of us are still trying at 45, 55, 35, 65,

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to receive something that we did not receive

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at five years old.

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We're still out here trying to earn approval.

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You know, even if you think that you had great parents

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and a great mother specifically,

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because you're really loyal to her,

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maybe she's passed and you're loyal to her memory.

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No, no, no, she was great.

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Yeah, she wasn't perfect, but she was great.

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But if you're out here

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still trying to earn approval from people,

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if you're still terrified of rejection,

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for all of you that are always over-explaining yourselves,

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always over-explaining why you want something,

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why you did this,

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always worried about what someone is gonna say.

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So you're over-explaining, trying to make everyone happy,

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trying to make sure no one gets mad at you.

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You're out here shape-shifting.

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You're trying to be whatever people want you to be.

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You're performing for love.

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You still are anxious when people pull away.

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You just wanna lock people down.

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You wanna keep people from leaving you.

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That's mom wounds, y'all.

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I don't care if you're loyal to mom.

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No one's asking you to be disloyal.

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That means that you didn't get something that you needed.

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And I'm asking you if we could heal it today.

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Everyone put your hands down.

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If you saw yourself in anything that I just said

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and anything that I'm gonna say,

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you got some mom wounds going on.

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And that doesn't mean your mom's a terrible person.

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It doesn't mean you're saying she's a terrible person.

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Everyone get your hands down.

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And men, this is about you too.

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You guys all had mothers too.

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It may seem like I'm talking to the ladies, but I'm not.

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I'm talking to you.

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I'm talking to you guys.

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Because some men learned really early

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through mom or through some other woman

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that women are emotionally unsafe.

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Flying off the handle, going into rages,

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having temper tantrums, yelling at you,

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degrading you, calling you names, whatever it is,

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taking out their anger about dad on you,

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not being emotionally available.

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Men learned early that women are not emotionally,

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they're not emotionally safe.

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They learned that through some woman.

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They learned that vulnerability with women was dangerous.

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Right?

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They shut down emotionally

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because the feminine energy around them felt chaotic,

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controlling, manipulative, critical,

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maybe emotionally absent.

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Maybe they felt rejected by the women in their life.

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Guys, this is just as much about you

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as it is about the ladies.

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But what we need to understand

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is that mother wounds do not stay in childhood.

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That's what I'm trying to get across to all of us today.

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They follow us into every area of our lives.

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They follow us into dating.

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And here's the thing,

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you can have a mom that's been there right by your side

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through everything, but she's also really controlling.

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And you haven't really seen it that way

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because you're just glad and thankful

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that she's been with you and been there for you.

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But she's also really inserted herself in a lot of things.

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She's also really wanted you to do things a certain way.

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And she's pushed you to do those things.

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And she's become upset

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if you didn't do those things that way

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because she just wants what's best for me.

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Well, okay.

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But you're a grown person.

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And that's why these things sometimes are covert.

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They're not even overt.

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They follow us into dating, into marriage,

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into any kind of attachment that we have with anyone.

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This is your first relationship.

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Mom is the first relationship, not dad, mom.

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This is so much of your identity.

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This comes out in your parenting, in your leadership.

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It comes out in the way you interact with other people,

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even in your friendships.

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It also comes out in your relationship with God.

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It comes out.

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Let's look at a few scriptures, you guys.

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Psalms 2710.

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Psalm 2710.

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Though my father and mother forsake me,

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the Lord will receive me, or the Lord will take me up.

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The Lord will make me his own.

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Right here, through the psalmist,

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God is acknowledging parental wounds.

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You guys know that David was rejected, right?

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There's a lot of word on the street

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that David was an illegitimate child.

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This is the reason why he wasn't lined up with the brothers

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when the prophet came to anoint one of them as king.

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When the prophet came to Jesse's house,

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David was out in the field with the sheep.

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Why?

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Because he was a shameful part of his father's history.

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His mother was not his father's wife.

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This is the story.

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This is the word on the street, right?

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So David knew a little bit about being rejected.

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Though my father and mother forsake me,

493
00:26:12.600 --> 00:26:14.060
the Lord will receive me.

494
00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:18.080
God's acknowledging that, you know,

495
00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:20.440
you could be forsaken by your parents.

496
00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:23.140
He's not pretending these kinds of wounds don't exist.

497
00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:27.320
And then we have Isaiah 49, 15.

498
00:26:27.320 --> 00:26:29.840
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast?

499
00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:33.760
Yeah, she can.

500
00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:37.460
Though she may forget, I will not forget you.

501
00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:41.100
He's saying right there that human love can fail.

502
00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.160
Human love can fail sometimes,

503
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.760
but God's love does not fail.

504
00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:52.160
God's love cannot fail.

505
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:55.400
God doesn't just have love.

506
00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:58.480
He is love and he cannot fail.

507
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.560
Even though the humans in our lives,

508
00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:02.200
even if they did their best,

509
00:27:03.340 --> 00:27:05.520
their best sometimes comes up short y'all

510
00:27:05.520 --> 00:27:06.680
because they're humans.

511
00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:10.040
But God does not come up short.

512
00:27:10.040 --> 00:27:12.240
His love cannot fail us.

513
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.160
Ephesians 4, 31 and 32 is talking about

514
00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:17.320
getting rid of all the bitterness.

515
00:27:17.320 --> 00:27:18.300
You guys can read it later.

516
00:27:18.840 --> 00:27:19.660
We're kind of running short on time.

517
00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:20.740
I'm gonna push forward.

518
00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:24.540
Talks about getting rid of bitterness.

519
00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:30.340
Guys, unforgiveness turns to bitterness eventually.

520
00:27:30.340 --> 00:27:33.340
It poisons us, even if we don't know it.

521
00:27:33.340 --> 00:27:37.360
And bitterness will keep us emotionally chained

522
00:27:37.360 --> 00:27:38.880
to whatever wounded us.

523
00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:42.860
You will not be able to break free from that thing.

524
00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:45.980
You won't.

525
00:27:46.860 --> 00:27:48.740
Remember, I say that

526
00:27:51.860 --> 00:27:54.140
if you're not willing to release someone

527
00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:55.820
from what they've done to you,

528
00:27:55.820 --> 00:27:57.700
like release their identity,

529
00:27:57.700 --> 00:28:00.220
then you have to keep being the thing

530
00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:01.600
that you've become because of it.

531
00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:03.380
So for instance, they lied.

532
00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:04.940
They lied to you.

533
00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:07.020
You know, they lied about you.

534
00:28:07.020 --> 00:28:08.540
You become the lied about.

535
00:28:08.540 --> 00:28:09.360
They abused you.

536
00:28:09.360 --> 00:28:11.160
You become the abused.

537
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:12.540
They cheated on you.

538
00:28:12.540 --> 00:28:14.380
So you become the cheated on.

539
00:28:15.060 --> 00:28:18.380
You don't have to keep holding onto that identity.

540
00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:22.060
When we forgive, we become unchained.

541
00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:26.240
We become untethered from that.

542
00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:29.100
And we give back our identity.

543
00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:33.500
Our pain, pain is not our identity.

544
00:28:35.620 --> 00:28:38.420
Someone needs to say that to themselves 1,000 times.

545
00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:39.960
Pain is not my identity.

546
00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:43.520
Pain is not my identity.

547
00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:47.380
And you guys know, this is kind of HeartWork 101.

548
00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.180
For those of you that are in HeartWork,

549
00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:51.580
this is a really important phase

550
00:28:51.580 --> 00:28:52.420
that you're in right now.

551
00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:55.940
This program is an important season of your life

552
00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:57.880
to really just do this work.

553
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.540
Let Holy Spirit dig deep with you.

554
00:29:00.540 --> 00:29:01.940
You know, Colossians 3.13 says,

555
00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:03.660
"'Forgive as the Lord has forgiven us.'"

556
00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:06.060
Forgiveness is such an important part,

557
00:29:06.060 --> 00:29:08.620
not just of your healing, but of your freedom,

558
00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:10.020
of you walking in freedom.

559
00:29:10.020 --> 00:29:12.140
Forgiveness sets you free.

560
00:29:12.140 --> 00:29:13.900
I know we've heard it a million times,

561
00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:16.020
but forgiveness is not for the person who hurt you.

562
00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:17.580
Forgiveness is for yourself.

563
00:29:20.540 --> 00:29:21.660
It really is.

564
00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:24.660
So let's talk about mom wounds for a little while here.

565
00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:26.200
We have about 30 minutes left.

566
00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:28.860
Wounded women, you guys.

567
00:29:28.860 --> 00:29:33.200
Wounded women often raise wounded people.

568
00:29:34.900 --> 00:29:36.500
Our moms didn't just come out of the box

569
00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:37.340
the way they were.

570
00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:39.380
For those of us that wish we had a different type of mom,

571
00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:41.180
wish that she could have been more available

572
00:29:41.180 --> 00:29:42.940
emotionally, physically,

573
00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:45.300
wish that she didn't have such a sharp tongue,

574
00:29:45.300 --> 00:29:49.180
wish that she would have shared her heart with you more,

575
00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.020
been more vulnerable with you, whatever it is,

576
00:29:51.020 --> 00:29:53.020
whatever it is that has hurt you about mom,

577
00:29:53.020 --> 00:29:55.380
even if she was a great mom,

578
00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:57.380
she didn't come out of the box that way.

579
00:29:58.900 --> 00:30:00.060
No one is waking up.

580
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.880
every day trying to destroy their children.

581
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:03.360
Even people that do heinous things

582
00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:05.020
that you read about on the news.

583
00:30:05.020 --> 00:30:08.120
Those people, they were the first victims.

584
00:30:10.260 --> 00:30:11.800
All it is is a lather, rinse, repeat.

585
00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:12.640
You know that, right?

586
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.640
And I'm not justifying it.

587
00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:16.040
I'm not saying it's okay.

588
00:30:16.040 --> 00:30:17.920
And I'm not saying, oh, they were hurt.

589
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.800
So we're just gonna turn our head to that.

590
00:30:21.800 --> 00:30:23.240
No, I'm not saying that.

591
00:30:24.140 --> 00:30:25.980
But I wanna give us some context.

592
00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:30.020
The curse looks different on everybody.

593
00:30:31.900 --> 00:30:34.600
And these people were abused, most of them.

594
00:30:35.860 --> 00:30:38.100
They didn't just wake up with an evil streak.

595
00:30:39.540 --> 00:30:41.680
Usually people that hurt us are people

596
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:43.820
that are just trying to survive themselves.

597
00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:47.100
You hear it all the time.

598
00:30:47.100 --> 00:30:48.680
Hurting people hurt people.

599
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.300
But we also know that healed people heal people.

600
00:30:52.820 --> 00:30:57.820
So some mothers, they lost themselves.

601
00:30:58.740 --> 00:31:01.380
They lost the plot somewhere along the line

602
00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:03.940
because they were just trying to survive.

603
00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:06.020
Religion makes people mean.

604
00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:07.420
I'm just gonna tell you that right now.

605
00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:10.540
Some people grew up in really strict religious environments

606
00:31:10.540 --> 00:31:13.260
and then they pushed that on you as your parent.

607
00:31:13.260 --> 00:31:16.280
They were always telling you how mean and bad God was

608
00:31:16.280 --> 00:31:17.500
and how he was gonna get you

609
00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:19.280
if you didn't do what you're supposed to do.

610
00:31:19.280 --> 00:31:22.720
I'll never forget, right after I was saved at 22,

611
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.760
after I gave my heart to Jesus, I had a radical conversion.

612
00:31:25.760 --> 00:31:30.380
I went to visit my grandma, my mother's mother in Tennessee.

613
00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:34.280
And this lady had been a baptized, born again,

614
00:31:34.280 --> 00:31:36.920
spirit-filled Pentecostal all of my life.

615
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.240
And I was super scared of her because she was just mean.

616
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.720
She was the one that'd be like, go cut me a switch.

617
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.120
She just wanna send you out to get your own weapon

618
00:31:48.120 --> 00:31:50.400
in which she was going to then beat you with.

619
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.560
Anyone else have a grandma like this?

620
00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:55.280
And my mom was raised by this woman, all right?

621
00:31:55.280 --> 00:31:57.360
She was raised by this woman.

622
00:31:57.360 --> 00:32:02.360
She wanted me to go out and find a stick of some sort

623
00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:05.720
and bring it back to her so that she could beat me with it.

624
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:08.120
Y'all, can we just talk about this for a second?

625
00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:13.880
Because people think the Bible says to do this.

626
00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.920
I don't have time to teach on this right now,

627
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.560
but corporal punishment is not what the Bible

628
00:32:19.560 --> 00:32:22.080
is talking about when it's talking about correction,

629
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:23.480
just so you know.

630
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:26.360
So if you were spanked by a well-meaning parent

631
00:32:26.360 --> 00:32:28.720
who thought that they were doing the Lord's will

632
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:33.720
by spanking you with a belt, with a flip-flop,

633
00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:37.200
with their hand, with whatever was available

634
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.240
that they grabbed when they started coming at you,

635
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:41.840
that was not of God.

636
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.640
And I wanna release you from that pain right now.

637
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.080
They took a verse that someone was teaching them,

638
00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:51.440
meant one thing, and that's not what it meant.

639
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.800
Yes, you wanna correct behavior in children.

640
00:32:56.760 --> 00:32:59.200
God corrects those that he loves.

641
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.080
But there is nowhere in those scriptures,

642
00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:03.760
in the actual original language,

643
00:33:03.760 --> 00:33:08.760
that it means physical pain or punishment, just so you know.

644
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.720
And we won't teach on that today

645
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:12.560
because it'll be too long.

646
00:33:12.560 --> 00:33:14.880
But if you guys need that and you need healing

647
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.400
from physical abuse from your parents, I will teach that

648
00:33:20.760 --> 00:33:22.320
because I want to teach that.

649
00:33:25.080 --> 00:33:27.000
I never spanked my kids.

650
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.880
It didn't feel right to me.

651
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.400
My kids got punished.

652
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.400
They got corrected, but they didn't get physically hit.

653
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.520
So some of you had that.

654
00:33:43.520 --> 00:33:48.520
Anyway, my grandma, she sent me out there to get that,

655
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:52.240
to get that switch.

656
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.360
But I was the grandkid that you sent me out

657
00:33:54.360 --> 00:33:57.320
to get the switch and I just never came back, okay?

658
00:33:58.800 --> 00:34:01.120
Listen, my mama didn't raise no fool.

659
00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:03.300
I did not come back, all right?

660
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:05.800
I just went off and played,

661
00:34:05.800 --> 00:34:07.840
and then eventually grandma was,

662
00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:09.480
she was done with her rage.

663
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.400
I knew how to outweigh grandma's rage.

664
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:16.199
She was just rageful in the minute.

665
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:17.840
If you just waited a couple hours,

666
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.520
then she was feeding you biscuits and buttermilk.

667
00:34:20.520 --> 00:34:23.320
You didn't, you just had to just wait it out a little bit.

668
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:26.920
But for those obedient grandchildren that went, came,

669
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.199
oh, oh, oh, and they went out and they got the switch

670
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:30.239
and they came right back, yeah,

671
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:33.040
they were gonna get beat because she was raging.

672
00:34:33.040 --> 00:34:36.120
You don't ever give a raging person a weapon against you.

673
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:38.000
Yes, I was always smart.

674
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.440
I was always street smart, y'all.

675
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:41.120
I was out here surviving

676
00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:43.360
from the time I came out of my mother's womb.

677
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.719
But religion is what traumatized this woman,

678
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.199
and it's what caused her to traumatize other people.

679
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.199
Do you see what I'm trying to say here?

680
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:58.600
Some people, they were raised in very insecure families,

681
00:34:58.600 --> 00:35:00.100
so they became very insecure.

682
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.400
Does anyone ever have a parent be jealous of you?

683
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:09.700
It's just like they want you to do well, but just not better than them.

684
00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:16.180
A lot of people deal with that you guys I've coached so many people over the

685
00:35:16.200 --> 00:35:19.400
last 29 years of my life and I'm telling you.

686
00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:23.700
People deal with parents

687
00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:27.980
that are jealous of them and jealous of their talents and jealous of their

688
00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:31.180
beauty and jealous of their opportunities.

689
00:35:32.980 --> 00:35:33.980
It's gross.

690
00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:36.480
But it exists in the curse.

691
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:37.780
It exists

692
00:35:38.580 --> 00:35:39.980
in our cursed state.

693
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:45.180
Some mothers were just single and they just lost themselves in exhaustion.

694
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:48.260
They wanted to be a better mother to you, but they just were too exhausted to

695
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:49.080
be a better mother.

696
00:35:49.080 --> 00:35:50.580
They were just trying to survive.

697
00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:55.060
They had bitterness themselves against their parents and against, you know,

698
00:35:55.060 --> 00:35:59.260
their former spouse or your the baby daddy or whoever.

699
00:36:00.060 --> 00:36:03.160
They were trying to recover from abuse, but they didn't have the tools.

700
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:05.160
They were emotionally immature.

701
00:36:05.160 --> 00:36:09.460
You guys know that when abuse starts in your life, your growth is stunted.

702
00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:12.960
Your growth gets stunted

703
00:36:13.660 --> 00:36:16.060
at whatever age your abuse starts.

704
00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:18.560
You kind of stop progressing emotionally.

705
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:23.460
And so some of us had really immature parents, petty parents.

706
00:36:25.560 --> 00:36:29.260
A lot of people became mothers before they ever should have.

707
00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:30.860
They became mothers very young.

708
00:36:32.660 --> 00:36:35.140
They didn't just become mothers before they were healed because some of them

709
00:36:35.160 --> 00:36:37.060
never got healed because once again,

710
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:41.260
a lot of our mothers never had access to the tools that we have right now.

711
00:36:41.860 --> 00:36:45.860
How many of you, whether you love mom or not, whether she did her best or not,

712
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:49.240
how many of you would love for your mother to experience what you're

713
00:36:49.260 --> 00:36:50.360
experiencing right now?

714
00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:53.840
How many of you would love for your mother to experience what you're

715
00:36:54.040 --> 00:36:55.240
experiencing right now?

716
00:36:55.640 --> 00:36:57.720
You'd love for her to experience a supernatural Saturday.

717
00:36:57.740 --> 00:36:59.820
You'd love for her to experience the ministry of Holy Spirit.

718
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.340
You would love for her to experience

719
00:37:01.540 --> 00:37:04.940
just the knowledge and revelation that God has given you

720
00:37:05.140 --> 00:37:07.540
over the course of your spiritual development.

721
00:37:07.740 --> 00:37:09.540
You would have loved for her to

722
00:37:09.940 --> 00:37:14.240
even have lived long enough to see the advances in science and the

723
00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:17.040
maybe she died of something that is curable now.

724
00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:22.040
You would have loved to have seen her healed supernaturally.

725
00:37:22.040 --> 00:37:25.620
That's my, you know, guys, we prayed nonstop for my mom to get healed and

726
00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:28.220
she did have a lot of healing and we thought she was going to fully get

727
00:37:28.240 --> 00:37:30.240
healed, but instead she went to heaven.

728
00:37:33.540 --> 00:37:36.520
And you know what God told me after the fact, after my mom had been passed for a

729
00:37:36.540 --> 00:37:39.120
couple years and this was really hard pill to swallow, but I'm going to share

730
00:37:39.140 --> 00:37:39.940
it with you guys.

731
00:37:40.140 --> 00:37:43.440
And please don't apply this to your own situation because this is just for me.

732
00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:47.040
It could be for you too, but I'm not saying that it is.

733
00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:52.020
But when I was really just having it out with the Lord a couple years after my

734
00:37:52.040 --> 00:37:56.320
mom passed because I was still deeply grieving why she wasn't fully healed on

735
00:37:56.340 --> 00:38:00.420
earth and you know, and God basically told me that my mom had so much

736
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:04.440
self-bitterness that she couldn't receive healing from him.

737
00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:07.140
Like she never thought she was worthy of it.

738
00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:11.420
She would, she would, she would believe it for just a couple minutes, but then

739
00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:13.740
she would go right back to partnering with

740
00:38:14.340 --> 00:38:17.040
that she just didn't deserve anything good to happen to her.

741
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:20.840
And here's the thing that God said to me that really hurt.

742
00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:22.740
He said, Jackie, I know it's hard for you.

743
00:38:22.740 --> 00:38:26.340
He said, but she's better where she is because she was in a lot of pain.

744
00:38:26.640 --> 00:38:27.940
Not just because she was sick.

745
00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:31.720
He said even before she was sick, she was in a lot of emotional pain all of her

746
00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:32.240
life.

747
00:38:32.240 --> 00:38:34.040
She's been in so much self-hatred.

748
00:38:34.140 --> 00:38:37.820
She's been in so much emotional pain and I know you wanted to keep her on the

749
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:43.140
earth, but she's she's better with me because she wasn't going to let go of it.

750
00:38:46.140 --> 00:38:48.340
You guys, my mom wasn't going to let go of it.

751
00:38:49.340 --> 00:38:51.640
She was going to keep circling back around to it.

752
00:38:52.040 --> 00:38:56.240
She had a wound so deep that she wasn't going to let it heal.

753
00:38:57.740 --> 00:38:58.340
Come on.

754
00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:01.840
You guys, please let's not be those people.

755
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.540
Please don't be the person that thinks you have to keep cycling in pain.

756
00:39:06.940 --> 00:39:08.540
Please believe God loves you.

757
00:39:10.540 --> 00:39:13.140
And his love for you has nothing to do with you.

758
00:39:15.540 --> 00:39:16.240
Zero.

759
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.640
It's not about your performance.

760
00:39:18.640 --> 00:39:20.240
It's not about your virtue.

761
00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:21.540
It's not about you.

762
00:39:23.140 --> 00:39:25.040
He loves you because he is love.

763
00:39:27.140 --> 00:39:28.640
He loves you because he is love.

764
00:39:30.140 --> 00:39:31.640
He loves you because he is love.

765
00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:34.140
He loves you because he is love.

766
00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:35.240
He wants to bless you.

767
00:39:35.240 --> 00:39:38.840
Can you receive his blessings even when you don't deserve them?

768
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.940
Can you receive his blessings without having to earn them because you can't

769
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:43.440
earn them?

770
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:49.440
Some of you are never going to be able to overcome whatever it is that makes

771
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.740
you feel disqualified.

772
00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:54.840
So you just have to be blessed by God.

773
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:56.740
And he wants to bless you.

774
00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:57.740
He wants to bless you.

775
00:39:57.740 --> 00:39:58.840
He wants to bless you.

776
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:00.140
He wants to bless you.

777
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.080
disqualified. Can you do it?

778
00:40:00.140 --> 00:40:01.140
He wants to bless you.

779
00:40:01.140 --> 00:40:02.240
He wants to bless you.

780
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:06.400
Can you do it?

781
00:40:09.560 --> 00:40:12.440
Because I'm just going to tell you, it's a reason why some of you are single.

782
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:14.560
I'm not trying to condemn you and I'm not trying to shame you,

783
00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:19.280
but you just really don't deep down believe that you can sustain a healthy

784
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:20.120
relationship.

785
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:26.160
Some of you have been standing right in front of love and have not been able to

786
00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:29.480
receive it because you've picked it apart simply because you're scared.

787
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.080
You thought it wasn't the right thing simply because you don't believe that you

788
00:40:34.080 --> 00:40:35.400
deserve the real thing.

789
00:40:39.080 --> 00:40:41.480
That's an internal thought. That's an unconscious thought.

790
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:49.440
None of this is supposed to erase our pain friends,

791
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:54.080
but it's supposed to help us to identify it and release it. We can't erase it.

792
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:55.520
We can replace it.

793
00:40:55.520 --> 00:41:00.520
We've got to acknowledge what hurt us and what's still hurting us.

794
00:41:06.120 --> 00:41:10.240
And the hardest part about mother wounds is we love our mothers. I love my mom.

795
00:41:10.560 --> 00:41:13.320
I still love her so, so, so much,

796
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.800
so deeply more than anyone else in my entire life I've ever, ever loved.

797
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.160
So I can't let her be the villain of the story.

798
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.000
I don't want her to be the villain of the story.

799
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:30.360
Because I do believe in my heart of hearts that she did truly the best she

800
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.040
could with the tools that she had,

801
00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:36.640
but the tools that she had still hurt me.

802
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:41.600
So you guys, when we have mother wounds,

803
00:41:41.600 --> 00:41:42.520
I want to just lead up,

804
00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:46.680
read off a list that I put together here of some of the things you might develop

805
00:41:46.680 --> 00:41:49.720
if you have a mommy wound. Okay. People pleasing,

806
00:41:49.720 --> 00:41:53.240
people pleasing, anxious attachment,

807
00:41:54.160 --> 00:41:56.680
over-functioning ladies,

808
00:41:56.680 --> 00:41:59.840
especially you over-function in relationships.

809
00:42:02.080 --> 00:42:05.440
You just try to do everything for that person so that they'll never leave.

810
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.320
You don't realize that's what you're doing when you're over-functioning,

811
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.840
when you're making all the plans, when you're doing all the things,

812
00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:11.640
when you're,

813
00:42:11.640 --> 00:42:14.320
you're doing everything so that they don't have to do anything.

814
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:19.040
It's because you want to make relationship with you so easy that they never even

815
00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:21.440
think about leaving. And that's with your children too.

816
00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:25.440
Stop doing all this stuff for your kids. You're messing them up. I love you,

817
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:26.600
but you're messing your kids up.

818
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:30.200
They've got to learn how to do it for themselves. I know you think, Oh,

819
00:42:30.200 --> 00:42:32.600
I just don't want a bad relationship with my children.

820
00:42:32.600 --> 00:42:36.680
And so I'm just going to do anything that they want. Anytime they want it. No,

821
00:42:38.640 --> 00:42:40.240
that's going to backfire on you.

822
00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:45.240
Cause the first time that you're not able to do what they want you to do,

823
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:47.880
it ain't going to be pretty.

824
00:42:50.040 --> 00:42:54.000
Some people get hyper-independent when they have a mother wound like me.

825
00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:59.800
I was off on my own trying to live my best life at 10 years

826
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:04.080
old on my own. You guys, this is embarrassing to say,

827
00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:05.080
but I'm just going to tell you,

828
00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:09.840
I became so used to my needs being denied as a, as a young child.

829
00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:14.160
I became so used to my needs being denied. I can't, I be,

830
00:43:14.200 --> 00:43:18.760
I became so used to asking for something and not receiving it,

831
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:21.800
not being told, Oh no, we don't have the money for it. Just not being,

832
00:43:22.080 --> 00:43:24.360
just not, not it, not given to me.

833
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:28.200
I know when you guys hear my story and you hear about how I went to foster care

834
00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:31.960
in a girl's home, it probably sounds like I was raised poor. I wasn't.

835
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.280
My family was rich. My mom was rich. My mom was married to rich men.

836
00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:42.040
She was married three times before I was 10 years old to millionaires. Okay.

837
00:43:42.200 --> 00:43:43.320
To rich people.

838
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:44.920
Okay.

839
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:49.920
But my mom was so distracted that I had holes in my shoes because she just

840
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.960
didn't buy me anything. She didn't go shopping. She didn't do anything.

841
00:43:53.160 --> 00:43:55.280
I'm embarrassed. I'm not embarrassed to say this.

842
00:43:55.560 --> 00:43:58.520
Now I would have been embarrassed to say this, you know,

843
00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:00.400
maybe 20 years ago,

844
00:44:01.080 --> 00:44:05.280
but I became so used to my needs not being fulfilled that I, I, you know,

845
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:07.920
I'm 10 years old. I'm not going to make any money. I started stealing.

846
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:11.240
I started stealing you guys.

847
00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:15.640
I started going over my friend's house for sleepovers and taking their stuff.

848
00:44:16.120 --> 00:44:21.120
I started going into the coat room in second grade and stealing people's snacks

849
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.240
because once again, my mother forgot to pack me a lunch.

850
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:31.200
We had tons of money, but I didn't have a lunch.

851
00:44:31.200 --> 00:44:36.200
We had snack. You guys at like nine 30,

852
00:44:36.200 --> 00:44:37.800
10 o'clock in the morning, there was snack.

853
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:41.240
There was one part like a short recess and snack time.

854
00:44:41.720 --> 00:44:44.480
You just ate the snack you brought. And then there was lunch.

855
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.640
And that lunch lady knew me. I will never forget her.

856
00:44:47.640 --> 00:44:50.920
Mrs. Ross, because I would come to her at lunchtime and I'd be like,

857
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.400
I don't have a lunch. And she'd give me a free lunch.

858
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:58.640
And she put it on her little fake IOU. I don't have a lunch.

859
00:44:58.640 --> 00:44:59.640
I don't have a lunch.

860
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.640
owed that lady hundreds of dollars by the time school was over.

861
00:45:05.640 --> 00:45:06.640
She gave me a lunch.

862
00:45:06.640 --> 00:45:07.920
She didn't know I had a rich family.

863
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:11.800
She probably thought I was poor.

864
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:13.120
Mrs. Ross, God bless you.

865
00:45:13.120 --> 00:45:16.600
I know you're in heaven because you were as old as the hills back then.

866
00:45:16.600 --> 00:45:23.400
So bless her, Lord, bless Mrs. Ross, the lunch lady.

867
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:30.480
But you guys, I started stealing because I became hyper-independent.

868
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:33.880
And when you're 10 years old, independence looks like stealing because how else are you

869
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:34.880
going to be independent?

870
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:48.440
I used to steal money from my grandpa's wallet because he was really old and he had a lot

871
00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:49.440
of money.

872
00:45:50.160 --> 00:45:55.200
I mean, to me, $50 was like a million dollars.

873
00:45:55.200 --> 00:45:57.520
I remember my brother stole $50 from my grandpa.

874
00:45:57.520 --> 00:45:58.520
He was stealing too.

875
00:45:58.520 --> 00:46:00.480
He stole $50 from my grandpa.

876
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:02.240
He went to Radio Shack.

877
00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:04.680
Remember Radio Shack?

878
00:46:04.680 --> 00:46:09.720
He went to Radio Shack and he bought something and he got busted.

879
00:46:09.720 --> 00:46:11.880
He got busted because he had whatever that was.

880
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.120
And my mom was like, where'd you get this from?

881
00:46:14.120 --> 00:46:16.400
And he's like, oh, a friend gave it to me.

882
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:17.400
Oh, you know what?

883
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:22.440
I remember he went to Radio Shack, but then he also went and he bought these fake diamond

884
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:24.840
earrings from like Gold Circle.

885
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:26.440
You guys remember Gold Circle?

886
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:27.440
All right.

887
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:33.160
He went to Woolworths or whatever and he bought these little fake like women's earrings.

888
00:46:33.160 --> 00:46:36.880
And he took a needle and an ice cube and he pierced his own ear because this was back

889
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:40.280
in the day, Michael Jackson, George Michaels.

890
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:44.640
My brother just wanted this big diamond in one of his ears and it got really infected

891
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:47.760
and my mom freaked out.

892
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:49.960
Oh, gosh.

893
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:54.120
Thank you, Lord, for the 80s.

894
00:46:54.120 --> 00:46:55.760
All right.

895
00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:59.920
So women, you're going to develop maybe people pleasing, some over-functioning men.

896
00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:03.640
You're going to just emotionally shut down with mommy wounds.

897
00:47:03.640 --> 00:47:07.400
You're not going to be able to access your emotional center because remember, boys are

898
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:09.600
supposed to stay with mom until puberty.

899
00:47:09.600 --> 00:47:12.720
You're supposed to learn that it's safe to feel.

900
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:17.920
Come on, guys, that it's safe to have emotions, that it's safe to have feelings.

901
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:21.760
So you're going to be emotionally shut down if you didn't get that from mom, if she always

902
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:26.600
told you to stop crying, to be a man, stop being a baby, if she forced you to become

903
00:47:26.600 --> 00:47:32.160
the man of the family because you didn't have a dad and you just had to skip childhood totally.

904
00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:37.180
And some of you guys have developed distrust of women because of feminine wounds.

905
00:47:37.180 --> 00:47:38.180
Maybe it wasn't mom.

906
00:47:38.180 --> 00:47:42.640
Maybe you have a sister that's really mean to you, bullied you, an older sister.

907
00:47:42.640 --> 00:47:45.240
You know, maybe your first wife, who knows?

908
00:47:45.240 --> 00:47:48.620
You develop a distrust of women when you have feminine wounds.

909
00:47:48.620 --> 00:47:52.160
You develop a fear of vulnerability, guys.

910
00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:57.920
Emotional avoidance, maybe difficulty receiving nurture, receiving someone taking care of

911
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.960
you or helping you.

912
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.440
These are just some of the things that might happen if the first feminine relationships

913
00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:10.120
in your life, regardless of what they were, moms, sisters, friends wounded you.

914
00:48:10.120 --> 00:48:14.760
It affects something so deep, you guys, and we have to stop waiting for closure because

915
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.880
these people, they may still be alive, but they don't have language for what they did

916
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:18.880
to you.

917
00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:23.640
And a lot of people cannot face what they broke in you because their own identity is

918
00:48:23.640 --> 00:48:24.640
too fragile.

919
00:48:24.640 --> 00:48:26.800
This is what happened to my mom.

920
00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:31.360
The last year of her life, she called me at 10 o'clock at night and she tried to apologize

921
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.880
to me for being a bad mother, but she didn't have language for it.

922
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:37.280
It was very incomplete.

923
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.840
It definitely wasn't what I wanted to hear from her.

924
00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:40.840
I received it.

925
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.160
I tried to be gracious, even though it was kind of disappointing to finally have her

926
00:48:45.160 --> 00:48:50.700
saying this to me and it to not really be what I wanted to hear, but my mom's identity

927
00:48:50.700 --> 00:48:51.700
was too fragile.

928
00:48:51.700 --> 00:48:56.040
She didn't understand.

929
00:48:56.040 --> 00:49:02.400
Our healing cannot be held hostage to another person's self-awareness.

930
00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:07.580
That other person may never become self-aware enough to really truly give you the apology

931
00:49:07.580 --> 00:49:09.780
or the repentance that you deserve.

932
00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:13.500
We got to forgive them anyway.

933
00:49:13.500 --> 00:49:18.860
For those of you that still have unsafe relationships with some woman in your life, you obviously

934
00:49:18.860 --> 00:49:23.860
don't just, you know, it doesn't mean access, okay?

935
00:49:23.860 --> 00:49:26.780
It doesn't mean that you give them full access when you forgive them.

936
00:49:26.780 --> 00:49:28.940
It doesn't mean removing boundaries.

937
00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:33.860
It doesn't mean denying reality.

938
00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:38.740
When you forgive someone, it doesn't mean reconciliation unless there's healing.

939
00:49:38.740 --> 00:49:43.980
It doesn't mean that there's going to be trust if there's not been any change, okay?

940
00:49:43.980 --> 00:49:46.920
But bitterness has to be let go of.

941
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:51.980
You need to say, I will not let this wound, I will not let this person's lack of self-awareness,

942
00:49:51.980 --> 00:49:56.660
their lack of identity become my lifelong prison.

943
00:49:56.660 --> 00:49:57.260
Not going to do it.

944
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.280
All right. Let's do some activations here. We have about seven minutes left.

945
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:13.040
I want you to ask yourself, what did I need emotionally in my life, even if it didn't come

946
00:50:13.040 --> 00:50:18.800
from mom? Because the feminine is what's going to deliver that. What did I need emotionally

947
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.560
that I did not receive? Go ahead and think about that for a second.

948
00:50:22.560 --> 00:50:32.480
What did I need? What kind of nurture did I need that I did not receive?

949
00:50:33.680 --> 00:50:36.400
And when you got something, go ahead and put it in the chat.

950
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:56.000
And for those of you that are the mothers that you felt like you dropped the ball,

951
00:50:56.560 --> 00:50:59.680
I want you to release that guilt, that regret, that shame, that grief.

952
00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:05.760
Maybe your kids don't talk to you anymore. I want you to forgive yourself during this session.

953
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:11.440
I want you to release the shame of not doing better because you didn't know to do better.

954
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:16.160
Just say over yourself, I release the shame of what I did not know.

955
00:51:16.160 --> 00:51:20.240
I forgive myself for the years that I was surviving instead of fully living.

956
00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:30.640
I forgive myself for any way that my pain and my trauma and my fear, my exhaustion,

957
00:51:31.200 --> 00:51:35.680
my insecurity, maybe your addiction, maybe religion, divorce, whatever

958
00:51:35.680 --> 00:51:38.800
affected how you mothered. Forgive yourself this morning.

959
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:47.120
Repent for it. The words that cut your emotional absence, control. And for those of you that need

960
00:51:47.120 --> 00:51:53.120
to forgive someone else, forgive them of this. The way they criticized, the way they manipulated,

961
00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:58.720
release them to God this morning. For those of you that are the mothers,

962
00:51:58.720 --> 00:52:02.720
release your children to God. I believe your children are going to forgive you. I do.

963
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:12.000
Release all self-hatred and receive the mercy of God, friends. Receive the love of God. Receive

964
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:17.520
the healing of God. Receive the wisdom for the future as you walk this stuff out with

965
00:52:17.520 --> 00:52:25.600
these folks because the story is not over. It's not over. For those of you that never got a chance

966
00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:31.280
to mother, release that disappointment. Release your comparison to other women. God has great

967
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:36.560
things for you. Maybe even release the shame. You feel ashamed that you never got married,

968
00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:42.240
never had any children. Release it. God wants to fill that void. He wants to fill that space.

969
00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:48.000
If you'll let him, he will. For those of you that are still hoping to have children,

970
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:53.520
release the timeline. Stop fretting over it. Stop fearing it. Stop obsessing over it.

971
00:52:55.600 --> 00:53:02.720
Let it go. God knows. Renounce the lie that you've been forgotten. Renounce the lie that

972
00:53:02.720 --> 00:53:08.160
you're lesser than or that you're behind. Renounce it this morning. Renounce it. It's a lie.

973
00:53:14.720 --> 00:53:18.240
Release the trust that no part of your story has been wasted.

974
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:25.360
I want you to say right now, God, I trust you with my future. I trust you with my future, God.

975
00:53:26.560 --> 00:53:27.680
I trust you.

976
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:42.080
You have good things for me. You're going to fulfill my desire to mother.

977
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:48.560
You're going to restore my children to me. For those of you that are estranged from them,

978
00:53:48.560 --> 00:53:50.560
or they're mad at you, or something's happening,

979
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:55.280
you're going to restore my family. You're going to bring reconciliation.

980
00:53:55.760 --> 00:54:03.600
Yes, I'm healing, and my children are off somewhere healing too, and they are going to be healed.

981
00:54:07.520 --> 00:54:11.680
For those of you that are needing to forgive someone that's hurt you,

982
00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:18.960
you're releasing them today. You're releasing them for what they didn't know,

983
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.440
what they couldn't do, what they could have never given you.

984
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:26.960
You're breaking agreement with the lies that you believe because of that deficit.

985
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:30.720
Right now, come on. Break agreement with the lie that you're unwanted.

986
00:54:31.600 --> 00:54:34.320
Break agreement with the lie that you must earn love somehow.

987
00:54:36.080 --> 00:54:40.080
Guys, break the agreement with the lie that vulnerability is unsafe.

988
00:54:42.640 --> 00:54:49.440
You can emote. You've been created to emote. You can be vulnerable. Women are trustworthy.

989
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:55.520
Women are safe. Break agreement with the lie that you're going to be abandoned,

990
00:54:58.000 --> 00:54:59.840
that your value depends on performance.

991
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.820
Come on, everyone.

992
00:55:05.820 --> 00:55:08.280
Let's receive the truth that we are loved.

993
00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:09.280
We are chosen.

994
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:10.280
We are seen.

995
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:11.280
We are safe.

996
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:12.280
We are secure in God.

997
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:13.280
We are secure in you.

998
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:18.140
Guys, secure attachment just means that you know that you are accepted in the beloved,

999
00:55:18.140 --> 00:55:19.480
that you are his.

1000
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.280
You know who you are and whose you are.

1001
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:24.440
That's how you're going to become securely attached to humans.

1002
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:29.960
You have to first and foremost be securely attached to your identity in Christ, not based

1003
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:35.720
on your performance, not based on doing things right, not based on making the right decisions

1004
00:55:35.720 --> 00:55:40.360
in the past, present or future, but based on the finished work of the cross of Jesus

1005
00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:41.820
Christ.

1006
00:55:41.820 --> 00:55:42.820
That is your identity.

1007
00:55:42.820 --> 00:55:53.120
That is your full identity based on what Jesus did for you and as you on that cross.

1008
00:55:53.120 --> 00:55:57.640
If you will believe this, if you will receive it, and you guys, it's not a one and done.

1009
00:55:57.640 --> 00:55:58.760
It's every day.

1010
00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:05.840
If you will believe it and you will receive it every day, you will find your relationship

1011
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.100
with humans changing.

1012
00:56:09.100 --> 00:56:11.280
You can even say, yeah, you know, God, I dropped the ball.

1013
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.120
I shouldn't have done that.

1014
00:56:14.120 --> 00:56:18.000
I shouldn't have said that, but I still know that I'm accepted in the beloved.

1015
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:22.200
I know that you don't love me any less.

1016
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.320
This might hurt your feelings, you guys, but God can't love you any more than he already

1017
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:27.520
does and he also can't love you any less.

1018
00:56:27.520 --> 00:56:31.840
If you think that you're going to do things that are going to, you know, win God's heart,

1019
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:33.480
you already won God's heart.

1020
00:56:33.480 --> 00:56:36.040
If you think that you're going to do all the right things and you're going to make the

1021
00:56:36.040 --> 00:56:39.360
right decisions, you're just going to be the best person you can be and you're just going

1022
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:41.640
to make God fall more and more in love with you.

1023
00:56:41.640 --> 00:56:43.000
That's impossible.

1024
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:48.360
God literally cannot love you any more than he already does and he literally cannot love

1025
00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:50.540
you any less than he already does.

1026
00:56:50.540 --> 00:56:51.600
His love is static.

1027
00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:52.600
It's constant.

1028
00:56:52.600 --> 00:56:55.040
It is not waxing and waning like the moon.

1029
00:56:55.040 --> 00:57:00.320
It doesn't get bigger with your good behavior and get lesser with your bad behavior.

1030
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:06.800
It is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

1031
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:10.040
Come on, it's true.

1032
00:57:10.040 --> 00:57:13.600
If you can't believe that, you can't believe anything because it is what everything else

1033
00:57:13.600 --> 00:57:17.960
is based on.

1034
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:20.320
I wrote a song about it, one of the first songs I ever wrote.

1035
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:25.800
I asked you guys, I've written a couple of little ditties, but it just says, this love,

1036
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:30.200
it's not waxing, it's not waning, it's never changing.

1037
00:57:30.200 --> 00:57:31.200
And it just keeps going.

1038
00:57:31.200 --> 00:57:32.200
It just keeps repeating.

1039
00:57:32.200 --> 00:57:34.160
I don't remember the tune.

1040
00:57:34.160 --> 00:57:41.600
This love, it's not waxing, it's not waning, it's never changing.

1041
00:57:41.600 --> 00:57:42.600
Just a little ditty.

1042
00:57:42.600 --> 00:57:43.600
Sing it over yourself.

1043
00:57:43.600 --> 00:57:44.600
Come on.

1044
00:57:44.600 --> 00:57:45.600
Elsie, God loves you.

1045
00:57:45.600 --> 00:57:58.480
You guys know the Bible says that God thinks about us so much.

1046
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:07.680
His thoughts of us are more than every grain of sand on every beach in the world.

1047
00:58:07.680 --> 00:58:12.440
And I've had at least a million grains of sand stuck to my butt after getting off the

1048
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:13.440
beach.

1049
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:18.120
And I'm telling you, that's an infinite number, more than the stars in the sky, more than

1050
00:58:18.120 --> 00:58:22.240
the grains on the beach, you guys, are His good thoughts of you, not just His thoughts

1051
00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:25.480
of you, His good thoughts of you.

1052
00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:28.460
He loves you so, so, so much.

1053
00:58:28.460 --> 00:58:33.480
And He wants to be both mother and father to you if you will allow that to happen.

1054
00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:40.920
And I know we're a couple of minutes over and I do not care.

1055
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:42.920
Let Him heal you.

1056
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:48.000
Be secure in His love so that you can be secure in human love.

1057
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:53.440
Because when you believe and know that God loves you like this, nobody can hurt you.

1058
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:58.600
Yeah, you'll be disappointed in behavior and you'll wish that it was different, but you

1059
00:58:58.600 --> 00:59:01.080
will not grieve it like you used to.

1060
00:59:01.080 --> 00:59:04.480
You will not let it affect your identity like you used to.

1061
00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:06.440
You won't.

1062
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:14.560
Because you will know the only love that truly matters, that is eternal, that is eternal,

1063
00:59:14.560 --> 00:59:17.680
loves you fully and completely.

1064
00:59:17.680 --> 00:59:22.800
Now, for those of you that still have a mother left on the earth, and I don't care if she

1065
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:28.920
was a good mother or a bad mother, part of you restoring your bloodline and part of you

1066
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:32.160
guys being where whatever hurts you ends with you.

1067
00:59:32.160 --> 00:59:36.600
It stops with you, the rejection, the abandonment, the shame, all the things, the grief, the

1068
00:59:36.600 --> 00:59:40.120
caring of distrust and insecurity.

1069
00:59:40.120 --> 00:59:46.000
It's you going into that stinking card shop and buying a card that's the best card.

1070
00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:50.160
And yes, every single word on it is not true about your mom and I don't care.

1071
00:59:50.160 --> 00:59:54.560
You're going to send it to her in the mail and you're going to bless her because you're

1072
00:59:54.560 --> 00:59:58.560
going to speak to her higher identity, not the identity that she's been stuck in and

1073
00:59:58.560 --> 00:59:59.560
living in.

1074
00:59:59.560 --> 01:00:00.560
I.

1075
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.480
Even if you have no contact,

1076
01:00:00.560 --> 01:00:00.560


1077
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:02.800
it doesn't mean you have to have a phone call.

1078
01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:04.780
It doesn't mean you have to go over for brunch.

1079
01:00:04.780 --> 01:00:08.500
It just means you're gonna send in the mail a card

1080
01:00:08.500 --> 01:00:12.980
that is going to call her up and bless her,

1081
01:00:12.980 --> 01:00:15.620
even if you never see her again on the earth,

1082
01:00:15.620 --> 01:00:17.360
even if it's never possible.

1083
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:18.480
I don't care.

1084
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:19.620
To the best mom.

1085
01:00:21.540 --> 01:00:23.500
To the best mom ever.

1086
01:00:23.500 --> 01:00:25.160
My mom asked me that question.

1087
01:00:25.160 --> 01:00:30.160
She asked me that question while she was dying.

1088
01:00:30.900 --> 01:00:32.660
She said, was I a good mom?

1089
01:00:39.100 --> 01:00:41.780
I said, yes, you were the best mom.

1090
01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:52.100
My only regret is that I didn't say it sooner.

1091
01:00:56.160 --> 01:00:58.420
Cause maybe she could've had some more peace.

1092
01:00:59.920 --> 01:01:02.520
Because you guys, I just wanna let you know something.

1093
01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:05.080
People don't need to hear what they did wrong.

1094
01:01:05.080 --> 01:01:07.160
They know what they did wrong.

1095
01:01:07.160 --> 01:01:09.480
They need to hear what they did right.

1096
01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:12.560
So find something that they did right and celebrate it.

1097
01:01:13.560 --> 01:01:15.520
They did something right.

1098
01:01:15.520 --> 01:01:16.900
They didn't abort you.

1099
01:01:16.900 --> 01:01:17.820
How about that?

1100
01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:19.020
Let's start there.

1101
01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:22.940
Find something they did right and celebrate it

1102
01:01:24.220 --> 01:01:25.740
because they know what they did wrong.

1103
01:01:25.740 --> 01:01:27.100
So Father God, we're so thankful

1104
01:01:27.100 --> 01:01:28.860
that you are both mother and father

1105
01:01:28.860 --> 01:01:30.780
and that you never leave us or forsake us.

1106
01:01:30.780 --> 01:01:33.180
That it's impossible because you've written us

1107
01:01:33.180 --> 01:01:37.660
on your hands and every single moment of our lives,

1108
01:01:37.660 --> 01:01:41.300
your good thoughts towards us are more than anything

1109
01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:45.020
that we could ever even comprehend.

1110
01:01:45.020 --> 01:01:47.420
Your love for us goes so far beyond

1111
01:01:47.900 --> 01:01:50.660
your love for us goes so much deeper than that.

1112
01:01:50.660 --> 01:01:53.720
And so Lord, I pray today that we get delivered

1113
01:01:53.720 --> 01:01:57.100
from the idea that we are performing for your love,

1114
01:01:57.100 --> 01:01:58.740
that we are earning your love

1115
01:01:58.740 --> 01:02:02.380
and that we are able to receive it every single day

1116
01:02:02.380 --> 01:02:05.260
without merit, God, without earning God,

1117
01:02:05.260 --> 01:02:07.580
without deserving Lord, and that we are able

1118
01:02:07.580 --> 01:02:10.700
to have that love flow through us to others.

1119
01:02:10.700 --> 01:02:13.540
Whatever you are to us, we will be to others, Lord.

1120
01:02:13.540 --> 01:02:16.420
And so we pray now, God, that we will be a conduit

1121
01:02:16.420 --> 01:02:19.500
of your endless and your unfailing love,

1122
01:02:19.500 --> 01:02:21.340
never waxing, never waning,

1123
01:02:21.340 --> 01:02:24.780
and never changing in Jesus' name, amen.

1124
01:02:24.780 --> 01:02:26.540
I love y'all, happy Mother's Day.