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The Unlived Life of the Mother: The More the Inner Child Heals the More Confident the Woman Becomes

To become truly empowered, a woman must make the radical shift from identification with her mother to identification with her own true self. There...

Find Your Inner Mother to Overcome Intimacy Issues

Your sense of intimacy may be governed by childhood trauma that leads to negative patterns in relationships, triggers, and disconnection from your authentic self....

Parentified Daughters as Adults: Bethany Webster

Parentified Daughters as Adults: Mother Yourself

Parentified daughters experience deep wounds and struggle to feel safe. Learn how parentified daughters as adults find freedom through inner mothering.

Your Hunger is Holy

As women we have been taught to fear our hunger. We have learned to fight it, to diminish it and to be disgusted by...

The Great Taboo: Patriarchy Begins at Home

There’s a reason why it’s been really hard for us to find solutions to our current global challenges. There’s a reason why feminism, with...

When Loyalty to Our Mothers means Loyalty to Our Oppression: How to Break Free

All children are loyal to their mothers. They need her to survive. The more stressed a mother is, the less she can be emotionally...

The “MONEY wound” in the Mother Wound

There’s a direct relationship between the quality of a woman’s relationship with her mother and her relationship with her own career and sense of...

Healing Trauma: What it Really Takes to Liberate your Brilliance

As children we were wide open and vulnerable, without boundaries and depending completely on adults for survival. It’s inevitable that as children we experienced...

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Signs You Had a “Mean Girl” Mother—and How to Heal

Is Your Mother a “Mean Girl”? It’s a taboo to admit—even to yourself—that your own mother may have acted like a “mean girl.” The shock of that truth often creates [...]

Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Relationship with Your Mother — and Why That’s Not Your Fault

Mother’s Day is coming up in the U.S. And while for some, it’s a time of flowers, brunches, and warm memories, for many adult daughters, it can be deeply painful. [...]

From Idealization to Integrity: Healing from our Collective Idealization of False Power

Lately, world politics feels like a macro version of a dysfunctional family. Have you been noticing this? There’s an underlying connection between the trauma and narcissism within families and [...]

A Love That Protects: The Path from Self-Betrayal to Self-Belonging

Breaking the Spell: Redefining What It Means to Be “Good” I’ve been reflecting on something I think many women will understand in their bones: how we were taught—explicitly and implicitly—that [...]