How Your Mother Passes Her Wounds Onto You
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Julia Austin
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Parents protect your stability
Jackson says that when she chose to leave her stable job to pursue her career in mental health, her mother didn’t quite understand. “The passion on the inside of me to help people on a grander scale outweighs my ability to stay at a job and collect a pension,” says Jackson. But she says her mother was mostly focused on issues like, how Jackson would get health insurance or how she’d have savings, rather than on her bigger purpose. Much of that, Jackson says, came from her mother’s experience of coming from a generation where women aimed for life stability, through things like, marrying young, and marrying a breadwinner.
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