How do you heal the mother wound?
It's the yearning ache that comes from reckoning with the imperfect human mother we get, against the idealised fantasy version we wish for.
It's not hard to find examples of dysfunctional mother-daughter storylines in pop culture. Think Pride and Prejudice's marriage-obsessed Mrs Bennet, Matilda Wormwood's neglectful bingo-addict mum, … [+6078 chars]