Do you find that you have a persistent sense of shame or wrongness that never quite leaves you?

As a practitioner, do you ever notice that when you’re supporting difficult clients, you lose your ground or act unlike yourself? Can you suddenly feel surprising contempt or impatience for a client, or unusual insecurity, and find that you are second-guessing yourself?

It might be your own or your client’s Broken Mother Field.

In spring of 2024, Sarah Peyton taught the first Broken Mother Field class, making a first pass at taking apart the phenomenon of being met with abandonment and contempt when we seek for support, and exploring the connection between how we are unconsciously received by others, and our mother’s patterns of traumatized behavior. The class looked at the ways we carry our mother’s most broken parts (and her mother’s broken parts, and hers…) within our field, and how those broken parts influence how the people around us act when in relation to us, and how to begin to heal the broken field.

This spring we will deepen this exploration with two classes. The first class, Self-Care and Emotional Wellness: Healing the Broken Mother Field, will focus even more deeply on our Broken Mother Field than we were able to do in 2024.

We all carry an imprint of our mother (or primary caregiver, of any or no gender) and their broken places with us wherever we go. In this course, you’ll work with Sarah Peyton’s healing processes of unconscious contracts and time travel in order to lighten the load of this field that travels with us.

We’ll learn processes and practices to help identify the Broken Mother Field, to see its patterns, and to begin to heal some of the impact the fragments have left behind. We’ll release the contracts our mothers carried to see us in particular ways, and the contracts of loyalty that keep us from truly growing up, liberating ourselves. This work engages deeply with the felt-sense of shame or invisibility that can arise from our vagus nerve trying to understand how to balance our mothers. We will look at attachment patterns in the context of the Broken Mother Field, and we will also learn processes to support ourselves in being more authentically responsive and less impacted by The Broken Mother Fields of the people we work with,

This course will support both clients and practitioners to have more understanding and recognition of how the Broken Mother Field shows up in helping relationships: it will make space for clients to walk away from practitioners who are easily influenced by the Broken Mother Field, and it will support practitioners to increase their capacity to have the personal introspection and awareness and skills that allow them to stay in warm and aware space in relationship with clients.

The work in this course will be deep, wide, and transformative: prepare to have an increased ability to make sense and recognize patterns in your life, and develop new strategies to work with what was previously unnamed and ungraspable. Together we will work to lighten and clear the burdens in our relational fields.