If living with Mother is this intense, then how much more profound it is when we must live without her. Mother loss can leave us without an emotional compass to guide us through the remaining stages of our lives. Because everyone carries into adulthood a child's fear of being left alone and unprovided for, the motherless child symbolizes a darker, less fortunate self. Her plight is everyone's nightmare, at once impossible to imagine and impossible to ignore. This loss can also be experienced when Mother is in the home but either emotionally unavailable or punitive.
Childhood then becomes a nightmare from which there can never be a guiding light.
Daughters who want to break the chains of negativity must find a new path. Our inner truth, the seat of our goodness, our place of power. This is what we seek when our memories turn back to childhood and reexamine old dreams. Sometimes we feel foolish in doing so, but more often we find this is where we discover our noblest selves. How fortunate we are when we can share this nobility across the generations.