Transforming The Mother Wound

Sure to become a classic on female empowerment, a groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma created by patriarchy, how it is passed down from mothers to daughters, and how we can break this destructive cycle. Why do women keep themselves small and quiet? Why do they hold back professionally and personally? What fuels the uncertainty and lack of confidence so many women often feel? In this paradigm-shifting book, leading feminist thinker Bethany Webster identifies the source of women’s trauma. She calls it the Mother Wound—the systemic disenfranchisement of women by the patriarchy—and reveals how this cycle is perpetuated by wounded mothers who unconsciously pass on damaging beliefs and behaviors to their daughters. In her workshops, online courses, and talks, Webster has helped countless women re-examine their lives and their relationships with their mothers, giving them the vocabulary to voice their pain, and encouraging them to share their experiences. In this manifesto and self-help guide, she offers practical tools for identifying the manifestations of the Mother Wound in our daily life and strategies we can use to heal ourselves and prevent our daughters from enduring the same pain. In addition, she offers step-by-step advice on how to reconnect with our inner child, grieve the mother we didn’t have, stop people-pleasing, and, ultimately, transform our heartache and anger into healing and self-love. Revealing how women are affected by the Mother Wound, even if they don’t personally identify as survivors, Discovering the Inner Mother revolutionizes how we view mother-daughter relationships and gives us the inspiration and guidance we need to improve our lives and ultimately create a more equitable society for all.

Find peace with your mother wound, with nervous-system regulating practices, rituals, and journaling prompts to peel back the layers of soul-wounds and awaken rooted wholeness. "In this work, I undertook to honor the mystery, magic, and the unseen elements of transforming core wounding because life is so much more than what can be quantified through linear science. It is also your multi-dimensionality, your humanity, and spirituality. Let us explore together.” – Monika Carless Founded in earth-based spirituality and mysticism, Transforming the Mother Wound is for anyone who seeks a gentle path to self-healing. This book is organized to help you in Remembering the Self, Finding Reconciliation with the Mother Archetype, Processing Grief and Generational Trauma, and Learning Rituals for Re-Birthing. Its dynamic exploration is focused on transformation at a cellular, intergenerational level, with interactive pages that invite you to participate in your healing journey. Through this journey, you may find that your creativity, intuition, and connection to yourself and all life forms is deepened. Embodied and aligned, you will embark on a new path . . . one of embracing the medicine of past wounds and becoming fearlessly oneself.

Find peace with your mother wound, with nervous-system regulating practices, rituals, and journaling prompts to peel back the layers of soul-wounds and awaken rooted wholeness. "In this work, I undertook to honor the mystery, magic, and the unseen elements of transforming core wounding because life is so much more than what can be quantified through linear science. It is also your multi-dimensionality, your humanity, and spirituality. Let us explore together.” – Monika Carless Founded in earth-based spirituality and mysticism, Transforming the Mother Wound is for anyone who seeks a gentle path to self-healing. This book is organized to help you in Remembering the Self, Finding Reconciliation with the Mother Archetype, Processing Grief and Generational Trauma, and Learning Rituals for Re-Birthing. Its dynamic exploration is focused on transformation at a cellular, intergenerational level, with interactive pages that invite you to participate in your healing journey. Through this journey, you may find that your creativity, intuition, and connection to yourself and all life forms is deepened. Embodied and aligned, you will embark on a new path . . . one of embracing the medicine of past wounds and becoming fearlessly oneself.

Surrender to the Sacred Womb of Healing. A self-guided course-book which through safe, nervous system regulating practices, rituals and journal prompts can peel back the layers of soul-wounds and awaken rooted wholeness. Founded in earth-based spirituality, Transforming Mother Wound is for anyone who seeks a gentle path to self-healing, with contributions from wise teachers around the globe. "I am so very honored to share with you a map for finding peace with the story of your mother wound. If you are here, your soul has called you to this work. This is a dynamic exploration focused on transformation at a cellular, inter-generational level with interactive pages that invite you to participate in your healing journey. Through this journey, you may find that your creativity, intuition, soul-frequency, empathy, connection to yourself, Source, and all life forms is deepened. Embodied and aligned, your body, mind, and spirit will embark on a new path...one of embracing the medicine of past wounds and becoming fearlessly oneself. The Ancients valued the natural rhythms of the Universe and planet, and in this way, found rootedness in their humanity as well as the sacredness of their infinite natures. It is in our humanity that we experience all there is - the light, the dark, the inner world, and the outer. All is sacred. You are sacred. In this work, I undertook to honor the mystery, magic, and the unseen elements of transforming core wounding because life is so much more than what can be quantified through linear science. It is also your multi-dimensionality, your humanity, and spirituality. Let us explore together." Monika Carless Also Available - Transforming Mother Wound: Journal for recording your transformation with original quotes and the artwork of Angie Shea.

The current state of our world demonstrates clearly that we have all been touched by the Mother Wound. For thousands of years, mothers have been disempowered, shamed, belittled, and abused. As a result, many mothers have become victims and been unloving, neglectful, and competitive with their children. A woman with the Mother Wound cannot help but pass it on to her children through her womb.Being infected by the Mother Wounds shows up as lack of confidence, self-doubt, stagnation toward desires, repressed sexuality, lack of focus, difficulty with intimacy, financial struggle, mean shaming self-talk, and a hard time asking for what you need.To heal the Mother Wound, we need to courageously break the sacred vow that each of us takes upon entering the human realms: the vow not to speak of the Mother Wound.This sacred vow causes self-harm and internal turmoil because we are not able to express the truth of what we have received through our mothers. When we cannot express our own truth, we become self-sabotaging.If you are reading this, YOU are the one chosen by your ancestry to break the pattern. As part of a sacred circle of women restoring connection to the Divine Mother with support of White Buffalo Calf Woman, you will courageously see the truth, heal the Mother Wound within you, and make a new sacred vow that honors your mother by first honoring yourself.What the world needs now is the fierce love and courageous truth of healed women and whole earth mamas. Together, White Buffalo Women will mend the Sacred Hoop and restore balance between humanity and Mother Earth. Join us.

Do you experience mental distress, toxic relationships, or low self-esteem? Do you think your mother doesn't love you enough or that you can never please her? Do you question whether God is interested in you at all or if He has a plan for your life? If you said "yes" to any of these inquiries, you might be dealing with the mother's wound, a severe and frequently concealed injury brought on by your mother's lack of affection, approval, and connection. Every element of your life, including your relationships, spirituality, and sense of self, can be impacted by your mother's wound. Additionally, it can be passed on from one generation to the next, starting a vicious cycle of pain and misery. However, hope remains. You have the power to mend the maternal wound and overcome its harmful consequences. This book will reveal to you: The causes, signs, and effects of the mother wound and how it affects relationships with God, other people, and yourself in addition to your mother. The process of healing the mother's wound includes learning how to use the power of forgiveness and grace for both yourself and your mother, as well as admitting, feeling, expressing, releasing, and transforming your wounds. The advantages of mending the mother's wound include enhanced relationships, spirituality, emotional stability, and self-worth; also, how to leave a legacy of healing for both the present and future generations. useful advice and resources to give you the ability to conquer any difficulties or roadblocks you may encounter on your path to recovery, as well as how to use God's plan to actualize your full potential and purpose. The author's account of suffering and recovery from her mother's wounds, coupled with the realizations and lessons she gained along the way, serves as the basis for this book. The most recent studies and professional viewpoints on the mother wound also influenced it and how it affects women and society. This book will assist you in experiencing the transformation and liberation that come from healing the mother wound, regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not. Additionally, you will discover how to accept God's love and grace, acknowledge that you are His cherished child, and understand that He longs for you to lead a prosperous, joyful life. Give up letting your mother's wounds limit you. Get started on your healing path right now and find the incredible gifts waiting for you on the other side of your mother's wound.

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the spirit that both men and women of our culture bear—a wound that is grounded in a poor relationship between masculine and feminine principles. Leonard speculates that when a father is wounded in his own psychological development, he is not able to give his daughter the care and guidance she needs. Inheriting this wound, she may find that her ability to express herself professionally, intellectually, sexually, and socially is impaired. On a broader scale, Leonard discusses how women compensate for cultural devaluation, resorting to passive submission (“the Eternal Girl”), or a defensive imitation of the masculine (“the Armored Amazon”). The Wounded Woman shows that by understanding the father-daughter wound and working to transform it psychologically, it is possible to achieve a fruitful, caring relationship between men and women, between fathers and daughters, a relationship that honors both the mutuality and the uniqueness of the sexes.