The Motherland is a candle all about the beauty and pain of healing the mother wound and largely inspired by Tippi Hedren's triumphant story in her career trajectory after her experience when working on the set of "The Birds," with Alfred Hitchcock.

The Motherland was also a candle inspired by all things motherhood as I know it without having children: the me too movement momentum Tippi's courage produced, the aftermath of traumatic stress for all mothers, silent or not so silent at all, passed on from generation to generation, and the mental ailments, health impairments and disease that can manifest from those places of fear and pain unattended to.

But mostly, it's a lot of bit about permission to learn the mother wound that lives in all of us sans shame. There are many benefits to understanding how we're affected in our daily lives, one I love most is by looking at it now and doing the work to heal what we can, our children may have a lighter load to carry, and their children, even lighter than that. The cycle continues and we can create a better reality for the future of female. All the while, we create a better reality for our continuing future growth as well. 

Today we are taught to understand "the mother wound" as this:

The Mother Wound: the pain and trauma, passed on from generation to generation, where women have been conditioned to unconsciously think of themselves as "less-than" in male dominated cultures.

How women have internalized the mother wound is unique to their own ancestral lineage, culture, familial constructs and DNA. It can be directly correlated with causing feelings of unworthiness and can also result in dysfunctional coping mechanisms that may feel safe at the time.

If left unhealed and unacknowledged, it seems the mother wound continues to be inherited and internalized by generations to come. 

The motherland is about acknowledging that so we can flip the script. With a bit of knowledge, compassionate acceptance and forgiveness of self, we can create a necessary awareness toward what patterns no longer serve us and what would help us to do differently.

We want the motherland to promote and honor the mother wound, not with shame but with loving acceptance and patience as we make any changes.

We hope to offer a catalyst in this candle for awareness.

When we combine our child-selves with the wisdom of our adult selves, a new lens and level of consciousness can help us to see and create a transformative opportunity. Our inner world transforms, and our external world will soon begin to follow. We believe everyone deserves that freedom from past pain!

Healing the mother wound can positively impact healing our DNA, our family constructs, our offspring and our futures. 

SO LA calls it the motherland to symbolize the mother wound, healed...and to aid you with a loving and soothing scent as you intend to work on your own. 

Reprogramming ingrained and familiar patterns is hard! Ancestral healing is much the same but its' importance surpasses the discomfort and we hope this candle helps you to celebrate this journey with compassion for yourself and self love and acceptance of however you decide to do so.