Episode 32: Discovering the Inner Mother with Bethany Webster
“Our hunger for the truth is getting stronger than our hunger for approval, so that is becoming our guiding light right now.”
-Bethany Webster, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Bethany Webster. Bethany is a writer, international speaker and transformational coach. She started blogging in 2013 about the Mother Wound and quickly experienced worldwide demand for her work. Through blending research on intergenerational trauma, feminist theory, and psychology with her own personal story, Bethany's work is the result of decades of research and her own journey of healing. Bethany speaks, consults and mentors around the world sharing her growing body of work that is raising the standard of women’s leadership and personal development. In this episode, Madison and Bethany discuss what the "mother wound" is, how it shows up in us and how to begin the journey towards re-mother ourselves through fierceness and tenderness. Madison also discusses her own no-contact relationship with her mother before they dive deep into the nuances of healing the mother wound within our emotions, our personal sovereignty, our relationships, our culture and our system as a whole. Listen in…
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
What “the mother wound” is and how to know if you have it
Why reclaiming tenderness and fierceness are vital to re-mothering ourselves
Madison’s reasons for going no-contact with her mother
How to rework the landscape of your own attachment through long-term, healthy relationships where you can be seen and mirrored
Why culturally we don’t want to talk about the mother wound
What anger has to do with real love
Moving being the infantilized child and through our experiences of exploitation into emotional maturity, our inner mother
How to begin to self-validate and prioritize your own experience as a means of reclaiming sovereignty
Why patriarchy wants us to stay an infantilized child
How to find your village of women by healing the mother wound
Breaking generational cycles and moving beyond the “Maternal Horizon”
Why healing the mother wound reconnects us to Gaia, or Mother Earth
