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“Ultimately, healing the Mother Wound is not about our mothers. It’s about women embracing ourselves and our gifts without shame. It’s about expanding our capacity for holding and transforming emotional pain into consciousness. It’s about restoring an ancient imbalance created by patriarchy.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“This work isn’t about blaming our mothers but about generational and intergenerational responsibility. It’s about owning our power as women and, consequently, creating a new balance and harmony between healthy masculine and feminine energies in our world.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“whatever the outcome, we will develop a healthier and more solid connection with ourselves, which is essential for our ability to thrive.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“Parentified daughters are robbed of their childhoods. The daughter does not receive affirmation for herself as a person; rather, she receives affirmation only as a result of performing a function (relieving her mother of her pain).”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“Many daughters equate silence about their pain as a form of loyalty to their mothers.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“For a child who needs her mother, sacrificing herself in an effort to somehow ease her mother’s pain is often a subconscious decision made very early in life and usually not discovered as the cause of underlying issues until much later, when the daughter herself is an adult.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

“The cost to society and the world is that generations of women keep themselves small so as not to offend, are compelled to blame themselves, and bypass the chance to fulfill their potential. Thus, the genius, power, love, and gifts of countless women are lost to the world. This is a tragedy we cannot allow to continue.”
― Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power