138. When Your Body Remembers Fear: Daughters of Abusive Mothers

This week, we meet a daughter who grew up in a home marked by fear, hypervigilance, emotional instability, and domestic violence. Although her childhood looked “good” from the outside, her nervous system carried a very different reality underneath it.We’re talking about:Hypervigilance and nervous system survival responsesWhy safe situations can still feel unsafeAnxiety, scanning, and emotional monitoringThis episode is for daughters who learned to stay alert in order to survive and are now trying to understand why their bodies still feel unsafe long after childhood ended.