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What You Didn't See

The Ache to Be Mothered

A young girl’s journey through invisible wounds, unspoken pain, and the slow, quiet healing of learning to mother herself

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Arushi Sharma
Jun 16, 2025
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There was once a soul who decided, “I want to learn how to nurture.”
And she was asked, “To truly learn what it means to nurture, you may have to experience the absence of it first. Are you sure?”
The soul said yes.

So she was sent to a life where nurturing would not come easily.

She was born to a mother already exhausted by the demands of a toddler, and to…

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