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When pregnancy triggers generational fears

I am pregnant and terrified I will become the same kind of mother mine was to me

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Anticipation of parenthood activates unconscious identification with internalized parental objects and unresolved childhood wounds.

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