How Your Mother Passes Her Wounds Onto You
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Julia Austin
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Handing down the superwoman complex
We asked Jackson what ideas around what it means to thrive as a woman, mothers pass down to their daughters. She said, “Generationally, the superwoman complex gets passed down. Particularly with people of color. Their mom had to be everything. Wear the mother-father hat, work multiple jobs, and cook and clean. So [kids] pick up that mentality of having to do everything all the time. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but when it’s done to exhaustion, that’s when issues happen.”
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