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May 5
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827 Why Women Don't Talk About Their Mot...

TERRI COLE
About this episode

We talk about everything now. Trauma, therapy, childhood, the things that happened to us, and the things we are still working through. Almost everything is fair game.

Except this one.

When the relationship with your mother is a painful one, the cultural agreement is that you keep it to yourself. On today's episode, I'm sharing why that's a bad idea and what you can do to break the taboo.

Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/827

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