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When Your Work Activates Unfulfilled Maternal Longings

I teach kindergarten and feel like I'm the mother these children never had but I'm not their mother and it breaks my heart daily.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The universal mother archetype seeks expression through professional caregiving, creating complex emotional attachments.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jungian archetypes and the collective unconscious?”

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