Empowering Motherless Daughters

How to empathize when you are yourself hurting?

Suffering. Who can avoid suffering in their life? It’s all around us. It’s even inside us. If you watch a homeless old man on the side of the pavement you would naturally feel sad for him. But only a few of us will actually do something for him.  Despite what most of us think, feeling…

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7 Ways to be Authentic to Yourself

We live in a screen-obsessed world where being an authentic self can be a little risky. We are just trying to be accepted and liked by the society we live in. The images we provide on our social media depicts who we want to be instead of reflecting who we truly are. So the question…

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5 Ways to Stand Up for Yourself

In your daily life, you may find a day where you need to stand up for yourself. The situation can be as little as someone cutting a line in front of you or a coworker ripping your ideas in a meeting. It is okay to let go of such little things but sometimes being more…

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My 6 tried and true steps to Forgive and free yourself from all the burden

Ever heard of the term ‘victim mentality’? That’s most of us in the wake of many of our plights, especially the ones caused by our fellow human beings. That’s exactly what an ineffective coping mechanism feels like. You have someone to blame for the problem, you remain angry and frustrated and shouting, getting depressed or…

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5 types of a toxic mother

Angry Mother. An angry mom is a type of toxic mother that is in a constant state of anger. This is not talking about a mom that is upset once in a while, agitated once in a while, or one that had a bad day. This is a mother constantly angry and causes the child…

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Motherless Daughter – How to overcome co-dependency.

For years, I surrender my life and happiness to other people. I went to other people to heal my brokenness, fix the pain and disappointments I was experiencing from the lack of nurturing I did not get from my mother

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Overcoming Co-Dependency

PODCAST: Empowering Motherless Daughters(EMD) Topic: Co-Dependency Speaker: Zainab  At some point in my life, I looked for my mother in you. I looked for my mother in my friends, co-workers, manager, neighbors… Everybody! I looked for my mother in everyone and anyone because I was desperate.  As a child, I never had my mother around….

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