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Motherless Daughters and Sons

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed
only when we touch them with compassion."

- Buddha

Were you physically or emotionally disconnected, abandoned or unloved by your mother as a child? There are actually similar emotions, beliefs and issues that people (women and men) have from growing up without a mother or with a mother who was emotionally unavailable, abusive or mentally ill. I have attained deep healing for many of these issues myself (I grew up without a mother from age 5) and with many clients. I have found that healing from this is very possible using EFT and PSYCH-K techniques even if you have been suffering from this since a very young age.

Fellow EFT practitioner Carna Zacharias-Miller is an expert in what she calls "missing mother syndrome". She has mostly worked with motherless women but discovered as I did that men often have very similar emotions, issues and beliefs as a result. The "missing mother syndrome" is not a diagnosis it is simply her observation, and my experiences is quite similar, of common feelings and expereinces of people who grew up without a healthy connection to their mothers.

*I want to make a comment here about my work and healing philosophy. I don't diagnose or label people or see people as their symptoms. My hope is that reading this list may help you gain insight and feel more compassion and understanding for yourself.

The following is Carna Miller's list of symptoms from her website MissingMother.com:

You could suffer from "Missing Mother Syndrome" if you experience most of the following conditions on a regular basis. And yes, even if your mother has been physically present:

  • You feel lost, out of place, and unsafe in this world
  • There is an underlying sadness in your life, even if nothing is wrong
  • You tend to feel lonely and depressed, especially at other people's "Happy Family" gatherings
  • You hate your body or are unsure about "being a woman"
  • You have abandonment or anger issues that hurt your relationships
  • You experience social stress - you either try to stay invisible, or you have a compulsion to be in the limelight
  • Any major crisis in your life, like a divorce, job loss, or bereavement, throws you right back into the painful past
  • There is a lot of fear, anxiety, or even guilt and shame in your life
  • You feel homesick without knowing where "home" is
  • You are trying too hard to be happy and "perfect"
  • You take rejection very personally
  • You believe that everybody else gets their act together - except for you

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Listen more about this online...

1. Listen here to an interview about EFT, PSYCH-K and motherless daughters...
News for the soulListen to Fraeda on the national radio show "News for the Soul". This is a one hour show about using EFT and PSYCH-K for motherless daughters and other issues. Download mp3 click here. Listen on You Tube part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6.


News for the soul 2
2. Fraeda demonstrates using EFT one on one over the radio...

Listen to one on one EFT sessions (facilitated by Fraeda) on the national radio show "News for the Soul". This show was aired on July 5th 2009. Clear demo of EFT and how it works. Download mp3 here. Listen online on You Tube part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6.

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Experiences of Past Clients

Death of a mother:

"EFT has helped me with many things- from physical complaints to deeply held emotional patterns to do with my mother's death when I was a child. Fraeda has helped me to start releasing these, which has lead at times to an amazing sense of unconditional love and joyousness. I would recommend Fraeda as a good guide to help anyone unravel their emotional layers that hold them back in life, she is very present, thorough and intelligent in her approach. Her great passion for EFT has lead her to be very good at helping people to help themselves with it."

- Chanah (Eugene, OR)

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Motherless Son: A dark cloud left my body:

"I’m a male in my 60’s. A few years ago I got Gary Craig’s EFT DVD’s. I watched them, was impressed, and had some success on my own. EFT seemed so simple that I wondered why anyone needed sessions with a practitioner.

Recently, I saw information about motherless daughters. I read a list which described some of my feelings. Then I listened to an NFTS Interview with Fraeda Scholz about Motherless Daughters. Fraeda said the issues were basically the same for men and women. I decided to try a session with Fraeda.

In the first session Fraeda skillfully took what I was saying about my problems and led me through a few rounds of tapping. I was amazed at much more effective this was than my less skilled efforts had been.

One of my earliest memories was as a 2 years old, planning to run away from home because of the dangers. My plan failed and I grew up as the outsider in a family of three children. My father’s job took him out of town for much of the time. He always told me to take care of mom and the girls while he was gone.

My mother favored my two sisters and I definitely felt she didn’t want to have me, a son. I watched her hug them, encourage them, talk to them, while shunning me and neglecting me. I stayed out of the way as much as possible. I know that in her youth my mother had been neglected in favor of her brother. So now she seemed to hold a grudge against me and was giving almost all of her energy to her daughters to protect them from a similar fate as hers.

It didn’t take long for my sisters to figure out that they could treat me badly and get away with it. My mother seemed to blame me for everything. This blatant and extreme prejudice continued into adulthood. I never felt I had a mother.

Fraeda helped me see that this was a family pattern and didn't really have anything to do with who I Really Am. That as a child I was in a no-win situation. Then as an adult I had continued this old family pattern.

After a few rounds of tapping I felt some relief. Then Fraeda led me through another round and the phrase, “I’m caught in this family pattern and it’s not fair.” At that moment a dark cloud came out of my chest and floated across the room.

I haven’t been the same since then. A lot of feelings are dropping away, such as anger, sadness, and helplessness. I feel less trapped. My pattern has been with me all my life. Currently I feel like I’m in a transition from what I’ve been for over 60 years and what I can become.

I have more emotional freedom and I plan to have more sessions with Fraeda."


-Paul (Boston, Mass)

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Mother issues and spiritual connection:

"Dear Fraeda,
Now it is my turn to thank you for our session for me today.  We have traded sessions together on and off for more than 18 months. Here is my testimonial about our last session. Use it how you like.

Our session today proved to me beyond a doubt that you can certainly guide anyone through anything with your EFT skills.  

I was left with a caregiver from earliest infancy, my mother was preoccupied with working for my father in his medical practice, and I went to daycare in the '50's from age 3 until first grade, often sleeping overnight away from home. When my mother was no longer out of the home, she was mentally off in her own world, and emotionally distant and inaccessible to her children's needs, as she believed it was best to 'leave her children alone' to let them find their own way. I certainly felt angry and unloved by my mother throughout most of my life, and I avoided her, in an attempt to avoid the pain and disappointment of that all-important relationship. She is now nearing the end of her life, and I am faced with the reality that she will never be there for me, and that I must learn to accept her as she is and has always been. She did the best she could, and now I want to cultivate a gentleness and caring for myself that goes beyond the neglect and detachment of my childhood. In the EFT tapping session, these painful feelings softened and dissolved to create a spaciousness for remembrance of the Truth that real Love comes from Source and not from others. Now after the session I am softening towards my mother and towards myself.

Many people have unresolved mother issues from childhood, and when our mothers near the time of end of life, many unmet longings for mother nurturing arise in us.  I have recently witnessed and experienced my own mother's mental and physical decline, taking an unexpected course, stimulating shock, anger, sadness, disappointment and fear within me.  How very fortunate I am to have a skilled EFT practitioner and colleague like you to witness, participate and facilitate yet another layer and level of  my healing process around mother love issues in my life.

How straightforwardly, compassionately and unflinchingly you accompany my healing journey around these deep and primary mother/child issues.  Even when a mother is physically present in one's life,  many competing needs keep her from nurturing and caring for her child's fundamental needs for tender  affection, protection,  and caring.  Old unmet needs in the adult child foster anguish, bitterness and disappointment that erode our own belief in our self love, lovability, well being, self worth, and our sense of being anchored in mother love.  Our EFT session quickly brought old buried feelings to the surface to be re-examened and healed.

After a beginning EFT tapping round, 'Even though I have all these overwhelming feelings about my aging mother's decline, I deeply and completely love and accept myself",  an old belief surfaced that 'I had lost my old anchor (to my mother) which I never really had'.  After a flood  of tears of sadness and a welling up of fear, feeling unanchored, the truth became evident that my only real anchor that ever was or ever would be, is my anchor with  Source, beyond this flesh and these bones.  Within an hour, the anger, sadness and fear dissolved into the comforting remembrance of my true connection with Source, along with compassion and acceptance for my aging mother.

Fraeda, I am certain, that you can be present and skillful with anyone or any  issue that comes up.  I trust your skill with EFT, your compassionate presence,  careful listening,  and your unflappable centeredness as you work with me.  

I have the utmost confidence in you--to hear me accurately, to intuit and restate the  essence of  my issue as you accompany me easily with calm,  unruffled, through my stormy healing process.  I would recommend you most highly and confidently to anyone over any issue.  

You have arrived to become 'the practitioner's practitioner'.  Congratulations and thank you so much.

Your Colleague and friend,"

- Maya, EFT practitioner (Sebastopol, CA)

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