After 40 Years, I Realized My Mother Lied:

Rica Ramos-Keenum
3 min readApr 18, 2021

Now I Teach Women to Rewrite The Narrative and Heal The Mother Wound

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I was ten years old, sitting at the table with my math homework, numbers swirling in my mind, making me dizzy. Mom stood behind me, watching me grip my pencil. It hovered over the page and I couldn’t make it move.

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Rica Ramos-Keenum

Journalist, yoga enthusiast, author of Petals of Rain and Nobody's Daughter: A Memoir of Healing The Mother Wound. Connect at Ricawrites.com