NTM 468: When it feels like you’re living with a pack of freeloaders

Nourishing the Mother

Family freeloading on your unpaid labour is REAL. So what is service, and what is enabling/over-functioning? It requires you to hold high expectations and a level of self-worth on your minimum standards for how others treat you, and how you treat yourself.
In this episode we discuss:
- It’s overfunctioning when you’re running from a threat
- It’s service when you’re connected to your heart
- It’s enabling when you limit their potential for growth
- The paradox of holding ‘not being liked’ and maintaining love and respect in a relationship
- Watching your co-dependent merge tendencies, rather than checking in on your greater alignment
- Subconscious tendencies to stack more load on ‘easier’ kids
- Sibling conflict as a way to balance family systems
- Self-worth as a barometer for what you tolerate in your home
- A willingness to be disliked by your child as you call them to accountability
To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/
To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/