Self-determination as a connection to one’s most intrinsic feminine–maternal potential

Abstract

Exploring one's own childhood and personal history is an important way to connect with one-self. It is particularly challenging to access experiences that we had before we were able to speak, during the time before birth, during birth, and in the first year and a half of life. Prenatal psychology can be a great resource for this. In addition, the circumstances of the time and the nature of my parents' relationship also play an important role. One difficulty in understanding oneself in this way is that all these connections have only been discovered and described in many small steps over the last century, so that we are still in the early stages and can only generalize to a limited extent. That is why individual circumstances are so important, and anyone who wants to start this journey is in a pioneering situation because they have to create the path they want to take themselves, so to speak. Another difficulty is that we are very vulnerable at the beginning of life, and this beginning is therefore associated with elementary experiences of danger, the repetition of which shapes our later life on an individual and social level more than we have been aware of until now. However, today we have a great resource in the form of nonviolent communication and self-awareness. Since the text also deals with very personal and complex issues, the informal style of presentation has been retained.