Women Without Motherly Support (WWOMS)
Emotional Abuse Support Group in Ashburn, VA
Women Without Motherly Support (WWOMS) is a therapist-led group designed for women who grew up craving connection, safety, and compassion from a mother figure, but instead experienced emotional cruelty, invalidation, or abuse.
This group provides a supportive, low-pressure environment to process the lasting impact of emotionally abusive or narcissistic mother-daughter relationships. Participants are invited to explore how these early dynamics shaped their sense of self and continue to influence relationships, work, boundaries, and personal goals.
Group Description
Many women in this group spent years trying to communicate their hurt, hoping to be met with understanding or accountability. Instead, they were dismissed, blamed, or had their reality denied. Choosing self-preservation was necessary, yet it often left behind a deep sense of grief, confusion, or longing known as the “mother wound.”
Women Without Motherly Support offers a space to name those experiences without minimizing them and to better understand how early relational trauma can lead to repeated patterns in adulthood.
In this group, participants may explore:
- Relational patterns rooted in emotionally abusive or narcissistic caregiving
- Core beliefs about worth, responsibility, and safety formed in childhood
- How these beliefs show up in work, friendships, romantic relationships, and personal goals
- The impact of emotional abuse on boundaries, self-trust, and self-compassion
- Ways to begin untangling inherited patterns that no longer serve them
The group is intentionally low-pressure. You’re welcome to speak, listen, or simply be present.
This group is facilitated by Vanessa Stolarski, a trauma-informed provider at Northstar Center with experience supporting individuals healing from relational trauma and emotional abuse.