Hey Mollie:

It’s encouraging- to read about a mother (yours) willing to look inward and make changes, however difficult.

It’s difficult to change long-standing thinking and behavior. Way easier to keep going just as before.

I imagine it’d be difficult for me, if I was a mother, to NOT rush to save my adult children from making mistakes. And yet, it’d be MY mistake to do that rushing.

A child- minor or adult- needs enough space and distance from a parent to develop and practice one’s own agency, which includes falling and getting up again and be allowed to do that without unasked for interference.

It’s a healthy practice for your mother to not rush to save her children.. as well as for you to not rush to save your mother 🙂

✨️ 🌿 Anita