✨ Understanding and Healing the Mother Wound with Nousha Salimi

In this episode of Perspective Shifts on Healing with The Hanged Woman Podcast, host Julienne Irons opens a new arc focused on the Mother Wound — not as a story of blame, but as an invitation to understanding, compassion, and repair. Somatic trauma therapist and integrative nutrition health coach Nousha Salimi joins the conversation to explore how the Mother Wound resides in the body and nervous system, shaping our experiences of safety, belonging, self-worth, and connection in adulthood. Together, Julienne and Nousha discuss how early bonding, emotional rupture, and unmet needs can create learned patterns of regulation and relationship — and how those patterns are not who we are, but something we can gently work with and change. This episode offers practical, embodied tools for healing, including somatic practices to support regulation, reconnection, and internal safety. It also holds space for the complex emotions that often arise around our mothers — grief, love, anger, tenderness — while emphasizing that healing does not require blame or bypassing. If you’ve ever felt disconnected from yourself, struggled with feelings of abandonment, or wondered why certain patterns keep repeating, this episode offers grounded, heart-centered guidance for starting the healing journey. 🔍 Topics Covered What the Mother Wound is (and what it isn’t) How early maternal bonding shapes the nervous system Rupture and repair in attachment Why healing is possible, even later in life Somatic tools for regulation and safety Compassionate approaches to abandonment and self-worth Boundaries, belonging, and embodied repair ⏱ Episode Chapters 00:00 Introduction & beginning the Mother Wound arc 00:22 What we mean by “the Mother Wound” 00:42 Guest introduction: Nousha Salimi 03:14 Nousha’s path into somatic trauma work 05:48 How the Mother Wound forms 07:18 How it shows up in adult life 09:00 Holding complex emotions toward our mothers 12:57 Why compassion is essential to healing 17:33 Rebuilding safety and belonging in the body 19:00 Rupture and repair in maternal attachment 25:03 Recognizing unresolved maternal pain 28:19 Beginning the healing journey 30:18 Asking for help and receiving support 31:01 Building safety in the present moment 32:24 Simple somatic practices for healing 35:54 Recognizing and addressing dysregulation 39:22 Navigating abandonment and emotional ache 56:31 Boundaries, self-worth, and repair 01:01:05 Final reflections and takeaways 🫶 Who This Episode Is For Anyone exploring attachment, trauma, or nervous system healing Listeners working with abandonment or maternal wounds People seeking embodied, non-blaming approaches to healing Those wanting practical tools alongside emotional insight Absolutely. Below is a YouTube-optimized description followed by SEO-friendly tags and keywords designed to help this episode surface in search, suggested videos, and related content — while still sounding human and aligned with your work. 🤳🏽 Connect with The Hanged Woman: Instagram: @3ofCupsHealing Website: 3ofcupshealing.com ✨ Find out more about the 3 of Cups Healing here 👉🏽: https://www.3ofcupshealing.com/ 🙌🏽 Connect with Nousha Salimi here:  www.noushasalimi.com   IG: @nousha  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nousha-salimi-30533517/