Marge Fenelon

Hello everyone and welcome to Women of Grace. I’m Johnnette Williams. A fundamental need of the human person is a mother’s love.

The nurturing, caring, and loving presence that comes from this primary person in a young child’s life is a key to emotional, psychological, and even physical health and well-being.

When this loving presence is withheld for any reason, the loss is keenly felt and can develop into what mental health counselors call the mother wound, an affliction of the heart due to lack of attention, over-attention, abuse, or absence.

In this Women of Grace series, we are going to explore the deleterious effects of the mother wound and the means to healing, hope, and restoration. Today is Part 1 of Exploring the Mother Wound: A Path to Forgiveness.