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138 | Need to be Nurtured: How the Mother Wound Impacts Your Marriage, Motherhood, and Self-Worth with Jada Dobesh

  • Emily Reuschel
  • Mar 5
  • 4 min read

Updated: Apr 24


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Listen to Need to be Nurtured: How the Mother Wound Impacts Your Marriage, Motherhood, and Self-Worth with Jada Dobesh on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Your player of choice



I’m excited to welcome my good friend, Jada Dobesh, back to the podcast today!


Jada is truly one of my soul sisters, and I can’t imagine NOT having her in my life.


Jada Dobesh is a Spiritual Healing Facilitator who helps women embrace their feminine by holistically healing their spirituality, sexuality and self-worth. She’s the creator of Selah Space, a holistic wellness co-op that is now a non-profit, offering a variety of life-changing services to women.


In today’s episode, we talk about the need to be nurtured, and how the mother wound impacts your marriage, motherhood, and self-worth. The mother wound goes SO much deeper than simply ‘my mom didn’t love me right’. It can actually present as a variety of physical symptoms in your body, and in your behaviors. 


Your mother wound isn’t just between you and your mom – it can be with other significant women in your life, and you can feel the effects from multiple generations before you!


If you consistently feel like something just isn’t right in your life, or you’re always raging at your kids and your husband, you have a mother wound that needs to be addressed. Jada supports the women in her Need to be Nurtured program to do exactly this, so they can be nurtured, regulate their nervous systems, and ultimately, HEAL.


If you want to feel safe and thrive in motherhood, you’ve GOT to heal your daughterhood – period.


Jada and I also dive into why it’s sooo difficult for women to ‘receive’, the major role the patriarchy has played in shaping basically every part of society, why our husbands stepping into their role as ‘strong men’ is a damn good thing, and more.


These topics are NOT always easy to talk about, but being willing to sit in discomfort, ask hard questions, and be okay with not having everything figured out is what matters!


Jada is a beautiful gift for all of us. The wisdom she shares in this episode (as well as everywhere else she is present) is something EVERY woman needs to hear. 


As a strong, capable, and brilliant woman, you deserve to know how your mother wound may be impacting you, your relationships, and your self-worth. You don’t want to miss this episode, friend!


Meet Jada:

When Jada was working in youth ministry and beginning her journey through Seminary, she had the privilege of working with someone who strategically combined all of her personality test results and wrote a summary about her. Here’s what it said: “Jada has a deep passion and conviction to do something about sex education in today’s culture and in the Church. She is very comfortable talking about these issues and feels a joy when she can help create an open dialogue for these conversations and the building of trusting relationships.” She was only 22 at the time.


Today, Jada is in a career dedicated to creating space for deep, transformative conversations and healing. The healing tools and practices she’s used over the years have shifted and grown in order to meet the complex healing needs of her clients. All of that wisdom, training, and tools have distilled down into the most potent healing space yet: Need to Be Nurtured, a Mother Wound healing and Emotion Regulating Program.


In this episode, Need to be Nurtured: How the Mother Wound Impacts Your Marriage, Motherhood, and Self-Worth with Jada Dobesh, we cover:

  • How the mother wound shows up

  • Why women are feeling the need to heal their mother wounds + how Jada’s Need to Be Nurtured program helps women do this

  • Receiving as women + how the patriarchy has impacted ALL of us

  • The relationship between masculine and feminine energy + how this affects the mother wound

  • Why so many men were raised to be ‘good boys’ instead of ‘strong men’ + how this plays out in marriage roles

  • Getting out of an unsafe situation in order to find safety & healing

  • Being willing to sit in discomfort and ask hard questions

  • Taking your time and being intentional with your everyday life



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More about Gather in Growth podcast: 

Where can I connect with fellow rural women who aren’t afraid to dream big dreams? How do I create and sustain daily habits that help me reach my personal and professional goals? Am I the only one that absolutely loves living in the middle of nowhere, but wants to understand the world beyond my backyard? What should I do about the unshakable feeling that there’s more to life than just showing up? How do I break free from other people’s opinions and confidently live as my authentic self? 


Welcome to Gather in Growth, a show created for passionate, growth-focused rural women like you. From mindset work and building strong habits to nerding out over personal growth books through the lens of life on a backroad, this is a show to leave you feeling joyful, inspired, ready to take action, and a little less alone. 


Tune in for honest and heart-felt conversations with host, Emily Reuschel, and fellow thought leaders, to talk about personal growth and thriving as a rural woman. Here you’ll gain tactical strategies to bring your dreams to reality, real talk about the ups and downs of tackling goals, meaningful insight from fresh perspectives, and the confidence to step into the calling that’s been laid on your heart for a reason. If you crave to feel seen in a small town, you’re in the right place. 


Whether you’re currently running on a backroad, shuffling kids to town, hopping along for a tractor ride, or three loads deep into folding laundry… we’re in this together. Absolutely anything is possible and I’m so grateful to be on this journey with YOU! 


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