Shadow of the Mother: A Year of Inner Healing
April 24, 2025 @ 10:30 am - January 1, 2026 @ 11:55 am PDT
About the Event
What were the qualities of your mother’s shadow self (or your mothering person’s shadow self), and how do they affect you even now? What burdens do you carry in your own shadow that do not actually belong to you, that you are living out for past generations? Do you long to be flexible instead of rigid, kind instead of harsh, calm instead of anxious, gracious instead of awkward, energized instead of paralyzed, successful instead of struggling, or aware instead of unconscious? Did you ever make a promise to yourself to be nothing like your mother, while being simultaneously aware that your mother is in every cell of your prefrontal cortex, stamping and shaping the relationships you have with others and yourself?
In this 29-week beyond-the-book course, focused around Sarah Peyton’s Your Resonant Self Workbook, we will look at the different kinds of unconscious contracts involved in carrying our mother’s shadow (which we do in an attempt to keep ourselves safe, keep our sense of belonging, and save those we love the most.) Join Sarah Peyton for a year of radical, life-changing self-love and love of others.
Event Details
Where?
The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).
When?
This 29-week course runs from December 5, 2024 – November 6, 2025 with classes meeting twice a month on Thursday morning from 10:30 AM – 11:55 AM Pacific Time (To convert to your time zone, please click here)
What to Expect:
As a participant you will:
- Become acquainted with the influence of your mother’s brain on your brain
- Explore the depths of your mother’s shadow and its unconscious effect on you
- Welcome the parts of yourself you’ve never known how to love
- Individuate and separate more fully from your mother
- Release the contracts that separate you from self
- Know yourself more fully and compassionately
- Allow for new levels of complexity and paradox in this experience of being human
- Infuse self-care into your everyday life
- Delight in new freedom and access to joy
- Learn in-depth in community
- Find your way toward an invitation to experiencing more freedom from hidden patterns while exploring the fundamental concepts of resonance through the YRS Workbook
- Transform your brain into a more comfortable and kind place to live
The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones.
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
Get assistant support during classes – experience resonant support from experienced practitioners when you need it during class times. Often, this work can have unexpected depth and touch on deeply held subconscious awareness and pain. Getting support when we need it most helps participants to integrate, regulate, and have a felt experience of the transformative power of resonance.
About Sarah
Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.
Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.
