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Thank you for honoring mothers. So few do these days.

You end your essay with, "The true mama bears will continue to rise, defending their young with a fierce, sacred love that cannot be silenced or diminished. They are the guardians of life, the embodiments of the divine feminine, and their holy sacred anger is a force to be revered and respected."

Yet, us mama bears are falling. We are so hated and discarded by most, that we are not doing well. We just don't have enough support in the US. It is taking a toll, and I am not sure how mamas can go on much longer in a society that is so against us...

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Society is against us I agree and we are not doing well. We may go through a dark time. I don't know how us mama bears will rise up but I am holding on to the hope of it. I wonder if it's the fear that has a lot to do with it, and so many children and mother child relationships have already been sacrificed.

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I don't think mama bears are in fear as much as exhaustion and their spirits are breaking. We alll need to do our best to keep our spirits alive as well as hope. Seems fragile at the moment.

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Yeah, exhaustion is a lot better way of explaining it. I completely agree. I wish I had better answers on how to keep our spirits alive and how to keep our hope lit. It is for sure fragile and I don’t know how we’re going to get past this moment in time but I’ll help anyway I can.

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I'm trying to take care of myself to live to the other side of it. But I am weary.

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Me too my friend. Me too!! Sometimes I talk in positive ways, even when it doesn’t feel very positive in hopes that it manifests positivity. Some days self-care is impossible, some days it’s minimal. it’s certainly hard not to be weary of everything when this cult has sacrificed so many of our kids.

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Thank you for sharing your words and thoughts. Thank you for being brave and speaking truth. I am a new mother and a former trans-“kid” and my heart hurts so much for the young people going through the brainwashing that I went through. My biggest fear is my own daughter being lead to the ideology. So I share my story so that maybe others can avoid this.

I also share that getting out of the cult is possible. There is a whole world and life and hope after the cult. I’m at a loss for anything else to say but felt compelled to connect.

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Thank you for sharing this. I’m so sorry you went through some brainwashing. I’m grateful you share your story and how you got out. You are in my thoughts!

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I've never felt more like a fierce mother bear than when telling my beautiful daughter that she is not a man, while the rest of the world encourages her to adopt a trans identity.

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