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Would you describe your relationship with your mother as “traumatic?” If so, you may have mother-daughter/son trauma.

Updated: Nov 20



Mother-daughter/son trauma, which often results in a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, involves prolonged and repeated exposure to violence from your mother. 

Children with mother-daughter or mother-son trauma:


  • Describe their relationship with their mother using words that point to an extensive history of pain, manipulation, abuse, and betrayal 

  • Lack many, if any, positive memories of encounters with their mother as even celebratory occasions or interactions that start off seemingly harmless end up highlighting how broken the relationship is 

  • Report that they are dismissed, attacked, or gaslit when they attempt to express their needs, hold their mother accountable, and/or resolve conflict within the relationship 

  • Experience interpersonal deficits, known as “mother-daughter/son trauma manifestations,” that result in career, friendship, romantic, parenting, health, and spiritual stagnation

  • Develop “trauma narratives” about themselves, other people, God, and the world that shape if and how they interact with their environment 

  • Often choose to go “no contact” to create physical and emotional distance between themselves and their mother after previous attempts at healing or achieving resolution fail and prior set boundaries are compromised 


If you have issues within your relationship with your mother that are less severe than those described above, you may be experiencing a mother-child conflict or have a mother wound.


Learn more about mother-child conflicts and mother wounds by clicking the links above. 


For a side-by-side comparison of mother-child conflicts, mother wounds, and mother-daughter/son trauma, click here.


Did you know that Dr. Dylesia developed a clinical tool to assess for mother-daughter/son conflict, wounding, and trauma? And that you can use your rating to receive customized treatment recommendations and therapy? Start the journey toward leveling into your thriving era by completing the Mother-Daughter/Son Conflict, Wounding, & Trauma (CWT) Scale self-assessment here!

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