Motherhood Quotes

“Individuation is the slow process of tuning in to your authentic self. It takes a lifetime. It requires you to stay open to life so that with each blow or disappointment or mistake, you befriend some new part of yourself that had been unknown or despised by you before. If you go through life tending to your authentic voice and making it your job to learn and accept as much about yourself as you can, you generally wind up being one of those older people who are happy and wise, rather than an older person who is bitter and small-minded.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

“Jung says that the goal of psychological growth is to become more whole. Becoming whole means being able to experience all of our emotions fully, doubt ourselves, admit our faults, take a passionate interest in the world around us, embrace our ambivalence, hear our inner voice, and marshal our power and authority in the interest of protecting ourselves and those whom we love.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

“It is a balm to our worried heart to know that whatever struggle we are engaged in is part of the universal human story.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

“our inability to tolerate our children’s discomfort teaches them that discomfort is intolerable.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

“Motherhood is the ultimate confrontation with yourself. Whatever is there to discover at the bottom of your soul, whether dross or treasure, motherhood will help you find it.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

“In the psyche, when we cannot let something die, the result is that we cannot fully live.”
― Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself