Honoring Mothers, Finding Home Within, and Reclaiming Women’s Instincts: Annamária Sütő and Anna Réka Ötvös. With Julia Neumann

In this Radically Alive Women conversation, Julia Neumann speaks with Annamária Sütő (“Wolf Woman”,) a Hungarian from Transylvania living independently in a small village, and her adult daughter Anna Réka Ötvös, who is frequently traveling between Siberia and Hungary, and learning to feel “home” within herself.

They discuss shifting the mother-daughter relationship from blame and constant arguing to listening, gratitude, and choosing to focus energy on one’s own life.

Annamária describes a turning point around age 35 when she stopped trying to change her mother from a rebel stance, made a gratitude list for what she received from her maternal line, and chose to change her focus on her own life and how she wanted to live. She also reflects “forward” to her relationship with Anna Réka, acknowledging that she gave her all she could and that it is up to her daughter what she does with her life.

Anna Réka shares her own realisations about boundaries, from having been an adaptive daughter, and seeing her mother as human, not an all-knowing goddess (“I don’t need google, I have my mom”).

They link honoring mothers to respecting Mother Earth, embracing light/dark duality, and reconnecting to instincts, including practical reflection on using anger as life power, symbolised by “wolf woman” teachings. They conclude by emphasising the importance of a woman’s intuition, and the role of fear and anger in that reconnection.

This episode is an ode to choice, presence and creation looking forward - not trying to fix the past, yet honouring the necessity of healing and acknowledging ancestors.

Annamária and Anna Réka offer Mother-Daughter retreats to heal the mother-daughter relationship. Contact either of them for more information.

The song in the background at the beginning is Annamária’s song “The Strength of a Woman”, in Hungarian. These are the lyrics in English:

⁠The strength of a woman⁠

The strength of one woman moves the mountains away

The strength of two women ignites the fires

The strength of there women opens the lands

The strength of four women causes the springs forth

The strength of five women calls the winds

The strength of six women opens the worlds

The strength of seven women opens the gates

The strength of eight women opens the souls

The strength of nine women opens the hearts

The strength of one woman gives birth to life.

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For more information:

Sütő Annamária Babi Farkasasszony,

⁠https://sutoannamaria.hu⁠⁠https://asszonykepzo.hu/⁠⁠https://lampaskartya.hu/⁠⁠https://hetkapuore.hu/⁠

YouTube, ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@SutoAnnamariaBabi⁠

Julia Neumann, ⁠julia-neumann.com⁠

Radically Alive Women, ⁠radicallyalivewomen.com⁠