Healing Mother Wounds

Welcome back to The Saving Superwoman Podcast with your host, April Ervin — your Chief Peace Officer.

In this heartfelt and courageous episode, April explores a topic that touches many women’s lives but is often left unspoken: the mother wound. With compassion and honesty, she opens up about her own experience — even within a loving relationship — and how unhealed wounds from our mothers can affect our identity, self-worth, relationships, and emotional well-being well into adulthood.

This episode is part of the “REVEAL” season — a journey of exposing what’s been hidden so that healing and transformation can take root.

💔 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• What the “mother wound” is and how it often originates in childhood
• How emotional neglect, enmeshment, or lack of nurturance creates long-term emotional effects
• The difference between blame and healing — this isn’t about dishonoring mothers, but honoring truth
• How trauma can begin in the womb and why recognizing generational pain is essential to healing
• April’s own journey with core wounds, emotional enmeshment, and the deep restoration God brought into her life
• 10 powerful ways to begin healing mother wounds, including inner child work, boundary setting, and seeking therapy

💡 Reflection Questions (shared in the episode):

• How would you describe your relationship with your mother growing up?
• Are there moments you felt emotionally unsupported or unseen?
• How do you see these wounds showing up in your relationships today?
• Have you battled people-pleasing, insecurity, or attachment struggles?

📖 Faith Anchors & Spiritual Guidance:

• Ephesians 6:2 — “Honor your father and mother…”
• Psalm 34:18 — “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted…”
• Genesis 50:20 — “What was meant for evil, God turned for good…”
• A breathing exercise and prayer of release to help nurture the little girl within

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• The Garden Within by Dr. Anita Phillips
• Why Am I Like This? by Kobe Campbell
• Free Burnout Factor Self-Assessment: SavingSuperwoman.com