Mother Work
Mother Work: Weekly Journey Breakdown
Week 1- Welcome & Orientation: Meeting the Mother Wound
We begin by creating a safe, welcoming space to introduce ourselves and the journey ahead. Together, we explore what the Mother Wound is, how it shows up in our lives, and what this healing work can offer. This foundation week grounds us in our intention and connection.
Practices: Group introductions, intention setting, psychoeducation, guided reflection and dialogue
Week 2- The First Home: Honoring Presence & Absence
We gently enter the story of our Motherline—honoring both what was given and what was missing. Together, we explore how early experiences of nurture, safety, and attunement—or the lack thereof—have shaped our sense of self and our relationships.
Practices: Ancestral mapping, active imagination, somatic exploration, guided reflection and dialogue
Week 3- Body Imprints of Maternal Love: Reclaiming Nurturance
We turn toward the body—the keeper of our earliest imprints of being held, fed, soothed, or ignored. This week supports the reclamation of embodied nurturance, self-soothing, and inner mothering through active imagination and somatic exploration.
Practices: Somatic exploration, guided imagery, group dialogue, supportive self-regulation and self-care
Week 4- Healing the Mother-Daughter Split
This week we examine the internal and external ruptures that occur in the mother-daughter bond: idealization, resentment, loyalty, and loss. Together, we explore how to hold grief and grace in the same breath, and how to release the internalized split.
Practices: Group reflection and dialogue, writing exercises, artistic journaling
Week 5- A Community of Mothers: Reclaiming the Archetypal Mother
We explore the Mother as an archetype that lives within and around us—spiritual, ancestral, collective. We begin to source care, wisdom, and guidance from a wider maternal field, beyond the literal mother.
Practices: Archetypal meditation, visualization, art-making
Week 6- Integration & Closing
We close our journey with reflection, ritual, and witnessing. Together we honor the Motherline—past, present, and future—and commit to carrying forward the inner mother we’ve begun to grow.
Practices: Group ritual, ceremonial closure
Facilitated by Kara L Kimball, LCSW, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Daughter
In-Person (San Diego)
Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm, PST
September 9, 2025- October 14, 2025
Virtual
Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm, PST
September 10, 2025- October 15, 2025
Cost: $180 for all six weeks, can be paid weekly ($30) or as a lump sum. Because of the nature of this group, if you register, you are committing to attend and pay for all six weeks.
**Space is limited to the first 8 registrants for each group.
To sign up, please email kara@karakimball-lcsw.com. Detailed information, including recommended resources, will be provided after signing up.
A Healing Group for Daughters
If you are alive on this earth, you have been shaped by your relationship with your mother. She was your first home, first teacher, first love—and for many, the first source of pain. This relationship is often complex, layered, and deeply formative, influencing how we relate to ourselves and others well into adulthood.
Mother Work is a six-week psychotherapy group for daughters ready to explore and heal the wounds of incomplete mothering—whether from childhood gaps or from a mother who left this life too soon. Together, we will engage in the sacred work of tending our matrilineal wounds, learning to mother ourselves, practicing gratitude for the mothering we did receive, and cultivating a spiritually-rooted, emotionally nourishing community.
This group blends a range of healing modalities:
Group discussions on topics related to the mother wound
Somatic practices to deepen awareness and connection
Symbolic and experiential exercises to integrate healing
This is a closed group—meaning participants commit to attending weekly—to foster a strong, safe, and consistent communal container. You do not need to be a literal mother to join. You only need to be a daughter who longs to reconnect with what was lost, withheld, or never known.