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Originally Posted by shattered sanity
I'm sorry.
i just don't see how you can be your own mommy
for example: mommies read to their children
mommies tell their children they are loved
mommies hug their children and kiss them
how do you do all that stuff?
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I think some of these cannot be replaced. I've been thinking about this a lot. Maybe we should allow ourselves to accept and grieve what we haven't got as children.
Some self-parenting like self-soothing can be done though. Like talking to myself in a loving way, react how I wanted my parents to react.
That works when you love yourself...when you can be compassionate towards yourself. When you believe you are bad you can't really do this. So that is something that could be worked on. To believe you deserve the self-caring. Because you do.