A groundbreaking study of the personal, cultural and global consequences of generational trauma passed down from mother to daughter, as well as methods to overcome the destructive cycle.

Why do women try to live quietly and inconspicuously? Why are they holding back in their professional and personal lives? What feeds the insecurities they often experience? In this book, leading feminist thinker Bettany Webster finds the cause of women's psychological trauma. She calls it maternal trauma and shows how destructive beliefs and behaviors are passed from traumatized mothers to their daughters.

Through her seminars, courses and lectures, Webster has helped countless women re-evaluate their lives and relationships with their mothers, giving them being able to properly express their pain and encouraging them to share their experiences. In this self-help manifesto and guide, she offers practical tools for identifying manifestations of maternal trauma in our daily lives and strategies we can use to heal ourselves and prevent our daughters from experiencing the same pain. In addition, she offers step-by-step recommendations on how to reconnect with your inner child, stop trying to please people, and turn heartache and anger into healing and self-love.

Ultimately, this is creating a more just society for all us.

Bettany Webster is an MA in Psychology, a researcher in social psychology at the intersection of race, class and gender, an author and editor of medical publications, a writer, a transformational coach, and an international speaker. She helps women in healing the psychological trauma associated with the mother. Her work has been published in Elephant and California magazines. In 2013, Bethany Webster published a blog post titled "Why It's Important for Women to Heal the Mother Wound" based on work she has done for 15 years. Overnight, this article went viral, with women all over the world sharing it on social media, discussing it with friends, and starting to link to it in new blogs and podcasts. Combining research in intergenerational trauma and psychology with personal stories, Bethany's program delivers high results in counseling women around the world.

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