from immense guilt or grief, the feelings can be overwhelming and can escalate beyond what they can manage or resolve. Sometimes pain sub- merges until it can find a pathway for expression or resolution. That expression can be found in the generations that follow and can resurface as symptoms that are difficult to explain. Events such as the death of a parent or infant, a child given away, the loss of a home, or even the with- drawal of a mother’s attention can all have the effect of collapsing the walls of support and re- stricting the flow of love in a family. Discovering the origin of these traumas, long-standing family patterns can finally be laid to rest. How women deal with trauma of any kind can


be directly related to their family history and whether that trauma was dealt with appropriate- ly at the time. Most often it was buried because survival was the number one priority at the time. Thus, women were not encouraged to or even taught how to ask for support.


Societal and Generational Expectations I believe we could take the question even further and ask why do women find it hard to receive? Why do women feel it is selfish for their needs to be met? Why do women feel it is part of their “job” to put everyone else first? The answers to these questions can be traced to societal and generational expectations as stated above, but also to the individual experiences of each woman in her own life. What if asking for help is perceived as making yourself vulnerable. What if you have experienced/learned that allowing yourself to be vulnerable actually puts you in harms way both physically and emotionally? So many what ifs... Are women doomed to never be able to ask for


their needs to be met, to never put themselves first on their list, to never learn how to love and nurture themselves? Of course not. If there is a struggle with receiving support, give your- self permission to ask for help, to clear what is getting in the way, and remind yourself that you cannot give from an empty vessel. You are worth it! •


Eilis Philpott is the owner of Soul Healing Journey, LLC and the Academy for Soul Healing. She has been a healing practitioner and teacher for over 20 years. For more information about her services, visit SoulHealing-


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