Breaking the spell of painful attachments and staying small - the fatherwound

Are you also breaking the spell of painful attachments and staying small?

Many of the high-functioning and/or sensitive women I work with, myself included, come from a lineage of staying quiet to stay safe. That’s survival.

But at some point, it’s time for that spell to break.

That moment when your nervous system can finally consistently embody the truth:
🧠 Good girl ≠ Strong woman/mother
🧠 Authority ≠ Truth
🧠 Connection that requires Self-erasure is not safety

Flavours of the Fatherwound, often hidden in our lives. 

This personally took me 34 years to realise and 14 years to stop! But I learnt soooooooo much about: 

👉 anxiety around authority
👉 over-functioning to feel enough
👉 feeling unsafe to speak truth or ask for support
👉 confusing obedience or sarcasm for love
👉 fearing abandonment without perfection in performance

For years, I didn’t have the language to put a stop to “this” constant anxiety.
Along with targeted Nervous System Imprints ReCoding, books like Controlling People gave me — and the clients I began attracting — a map out of the confusion and suffering by recognising how to respond maturely to this immature wounded behaviour hard to pinpoint in traditional talk therapies.

No visible external bruises, just bruised trust, safety, femininity, shrinking.

Some forms of control are not that obvious.

These type of controllers are often charming to others but slowly attacking the soul when others are not looking…

e.g. passive aggression, hostile attitudes, snide remarks, sarcasm, constant put-downs, belittling etc... “can’t take a joke?”

They make for crazy-making, leaving you confused and doubting yourself…

👉 Learn to trust your body responses, your emotional messages.. I can't stress this enough 💚

"Just as assaults to the body are harmful, so are assaults to the psyche. All such assaults are attempts to control."

In these experiences, hard as they are, we have the honour to be in relationships where we learn the difference between:

👉 Mutuality, respect, goodwill, cooperation, personal power and equality = Reality 1

vs

👉 Power Over others, control and dominance = Reality 2

🌟 NEWSFLASH 🌟: Some people are still operating in Reality 2!  Years and years of patriarchal conditioning is often behind this... Reality 1 and 2 are worlds apart!

Learn to recognise it and how to respond.

Personal Power aka self empowerment is your birthright... Claiming it and owning it is self love.

Realising the controller is coming from a wounded place helps to understand the futility in reasoning if the person refuses to discuss or change the bullying behaviour = a soul-gift I believe to help you to learn about your personal boundaries. 🤛

"Feelings seem dangerous to Controllers, who have been trained to believe that emotions are wrong, not real, not to be acknowledged, trusted or even contemplated and to believe that if they show their pain or even their pleasure, the will be wounded further".

I am grateful for the tough soul lesson 🙏. I have learnt so much in the process of unraveling this dynamic in my life...

In Chinese cosmology, the shift in years is now is real:

🐍 Snake: from survival intelligence, silence, watching, staying small to embodied truth.
🔥 Horse: movement without permission. Truth as motion. And when fire is added? There’s no going back.

Snake year in my nervous system meant finally closing a relational spell where my deepest fear DID come true, after exploring all avenues (like a good girl does 😅). 

This time, telling truth meant standing steady in that fear without collapse/freeze. 

A Nervous system initiation.

I see similar patterns with my clients shifting away from obedience, no longer abandoning themselves.
✨ How do the Father Wound Imprints show up in your nervous system?
✨ How will the Fire Horse energy move through your leadership, your love, your lineage this year?

Craving this kind of deep pattern reCoding? You are not alone and you’ve got this! 💪🏻

Here’s how I can help:

💫 1-on-1 Body-mind IQ - Nervous system Therapy with love www.marisehyman.com/empoweredme

and/or monthly groups of

💫 “Born to Love - Born to Lead” - Imprints ReCoding mini RETREATS

www.marisehyman.com/retreats

In the meantime, join my free Healing Club with digital embodied tools so you can start feeling better right away! www.marisehyman.com/the-healingclub

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