When art meets psychology
- Giovanna Pandolfelli
- 12 ott
- Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Mother-child bond
👩🍼The special bond between a mother and her child is made out of single everyday moments when they become each other's world.
🤰Shared glances, laughter, even sleepless nights are the unique language between a mother and her child. As Agatha Christie reminds us:
“A mother's love for her child
is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity.
It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly
all that stands in its path."
The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, 1933).
🐣🐥🐤These are the moments that build up a lifelong trust, that allow a future adult to become a self aware and enduring individual ready to cope with life.
👩💼And yet how difficult it is in our society for a mother to cherish those precious moments through the hectic days ahead, how hard it is to balance professional, emotional life without loosing oneself.
🧎♀️🚦💪Mothers carry many invisible weights, need to face various aspects of a reality that expects them to be efficient all the time.
👵Mothers forge their motherhood on their own past experience. What happens then when their own mother did not meet their expectations? What are their role models in this case? How to be a good mother when a woman has internalised a negative model of motherhood?
"We are in the habit of saying
that it was not in our power to choose
the parents who were allotted to us,
that they were given to us by chance.
But we can choose whose children
we would like to be."
L. A. Seneca, On the Shortness of Life, 1st century A.D.
