Karen C.L. Anderson

Expert Overview

The Mother Lode is for adult daughters who want to navigate and heal the complex relationship they have with their mothers (whether she's narcissistic or not).

Together we work together on three core skills:

#1 Creating Safety so you're no longer reacting in a way you’ll regret later, but rather responding firmly and confidently – fiercely even – and liking your reasons for the way you choose to respond.

#2 Creating Intentional Identity and peeling away shame-based beliefs about yourself, that were never yours to begin with. This is a mind-body practice that goes way beyond positive affirmations and mindset work and taps into experiences you loved having to remember what's really true about you.

#3 Creating Healthy Boundaries and communicating them with the least amount of anxiety and guilt. You will also learn how to set energetic boundaries, no communication necessary. It’s who you become as a result of setting boundaries : a grownass woman who doesn’t spend her precious time and energy explaining, defending, proving, and hiding.

My clients share that they...

- Are more confident.

- Spend way less time and energy "managing" and "coping" with their mothers.

- Are able to find a middle path between estrangement and enmeshment.

- Live with less guilt, defensiveness, anxiety, resentment, hopelessness, and rage.

- Feel both safe and powerful in making changes to the relationship.

- Have changed their relationship to shame.

- Stop people-pleasing.

- Are better able to respond (versus reacting).

- Have more trust in themselves, and respect for themselves.

- Establish and maintain healthy, mature boundaries.

- Have richer, more intimate relationships with those who matter most to them.