So much of women’s pain gets individualized as “personal failure,” when so many of our struggles are intelligent adaptations to patriarchal and capitalist systems. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT introduces the Trinity Wounds—the witch wound, sister wound, and mother wound—and how they shape women’s relationship to visibility, trust with other women, and the complicated grief we carry toward our mothers.

We start with the loss of the village (the severing of communal support and interdependence), then walk through how each wound shows up in modern life: self-minimization, competition, suspicion, compliance, and disconnection from instinct. You’ll leave with a map for healing that includes context, grief, shadow work, relational repair, and embodiment—choosing what’s truer instead of what’s safer.

For educational purposes only. This isn’t therapy.

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