Befriending Your Mom Parts

Get ready to explore your mom parts guided by Jessica! You will need a pen and paper

• She guides us through a visualization exercise, inviting us to recall a moment in our mothering journey that felt triggering or unsettling.
• As we settle in, we notice our emotional, physical, and cognitive reactions, identifying different “protector parts” that emerge to shield us from distress.
• Write down the protector parts that showed up during the visualization, helping us see how they developed from past experiences.
• We reflect on the deeper emotions beneath these protectors, particularly shame and grief—the two core vulnerabilities of motherhood.
• She then introduces a set of “truths,” and we choose the ones that resonate most, allowing us to validate our experiences and shift our perspective.
• Next, we explore the “remedies,” based on the Internal Family Systems concept of the 8 C’s—compassion, calmness, clarity, confidence, connectedness, courage, creativity, and curiosity. We’re encouraged to send these healing qualities to the parts of ourselves that need them most.
• Imagine this healing extending beyond ourselves—sending it back to our ancestors and forward to our children, reinforcing intergenerational healing.
• As the session unfolds, we feel a sense of connection, realizing that despite our different backgrounds, our experiences as mothers are deeply universal.