In her book, chakras in their archetypes Ambika waters discusses the transmutation of a wounded root chakra, from victim to mother. According to waters, the mother archetype helps us to care for ourselves and to be attentive to our needs. The mother archetype also helps us to deepen our capacity for love of self, our family and community. When we work and when we are caught up in a victim archetype. Even if we are mothers in a material realm, our mothering will come from a place of distortion because as famously stated by RuPaul if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to live somebody else? Currently grind culture promotes our society to subscribe to a distorted version of motherhood, where women and caregivers are trained to consider themselves last. This episode discusses how we might heal this through a paradigm shift. Learn more at thrivingwithheather.com