Unburdening Motherhood: A Guide to Breaking Cycles, Healing Trauma, and Becoming a Self-Led Mom

Practical tools to help mothers heal so they can approach motherhood with more self-trust, compassion, and joy.

When clinical psychologist and mindfulness meditation teacher Dr. Angele Close started a family, she assumed she would have the skills, maturity, and all the love to create a harmonious, joy-filled home. But past trauma and the heavy weight of cultural myths about what makes “a good mother” turned parenting into a minefield of triggers. To truly break the cycle of generational pain...