#477: The Mother Wound - How to Heal What You Inherited With Bethany Webster

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode, Mark sits down with author and thought leader Bethany Webster for a powerful deep dive into the “mother wound” and how it unconsciously shapes our sense of self, relationships, and capacity to thrive. Bethany breaks down the four levels of the mother wound, how family dynamics and cultural conditioning intertwine, and why so many of us carry invisible patterns of self-abandonment, guilt, or people-pleasing. Through her own story and years of teaching, she reveals how confronting and healing these wounds can liberate us from inherited beliefs, create healthier boundaries, and unlock greater authenticity in love, work, and life. This is an eye-opening conversation on breaking cycles, reclaiming sovereignty, and learning to mother ourselves with compassion and truth. Bethany Webster is considered a global expert on healing the Mother Wound. She is a writer, international speaker and transformational coach. Bethany 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. Links: Website: www.bethanywebster.com Book: Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming your Personal Power Online course: https://www.bethanywebster.com/healing-mother-wound-course/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themotherwound/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/healingthemotherwound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/innermother —Have a question For Mark to answer on the podcast?https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast —Have a question for Mark and want an immediate answer? Mark's Dexa page: https://ask.markgroves.com —How are your Nervous System + Attachment Style connected? https://markgroves.com/connectthedots - Subscribe to Mark’s Substack to receive his weekly reflections and insights straight from his heart to your inbox. https://markgroves.substack.com/ Contact us at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, or just to say hello! —This episode is sponsored by: Institute for Integrative Nutrition: Certified Health Coach Training: Use code MARKGROVES20 for

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:05.2	Today we have a guest who is going to break down something that is very fascinating.
0:12.9	It is in the context of your relationship to your mother and how it connects to so many things.
0:19.4	So many things.
0:20.3	So if you've ever heard the term the mother wound,
0:23.6	or you haven't, doesn't that term kind of get you all zingy? Like, oh, there's got to be some
0:28.7	juice up in here. And there is. I heard this woman's work a long time ago. Kylie's a very big
0:35.6	fan. Kylie's my wife, if you're not familiar. And it's just such
0:40.5	tremendous work. It makes a lot of things make sense as to why you up or limit yourself, how this
0:46.7	mother wound shows up in your life as men and women, and how it shows up in our relationships.
0:51.9	It could be such an unconscious way in which we limit ourselves.
0:56.4	So, you know, before we dive in, wherever you're listening to this,
1:00.0	one of the simplest ways to support the show that costs you nothing
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1:05.5	You don't miss any episodes.
1:07.4	I'm moving towards just solo episodes with the odd guest here and there because I'm really,
1:12.6	you know, as I was saying, I was like, I'm not going to have guests anymore. I then get this
1:16.1	chance to have an incredible guest where I'm like, oh, I want to talk about what you're thinking
1:20.9	about because you think about the world in a way that I want to understand more deeply. Because
1:25.9	look at the world we're in. It's very fractured.
1:28.2	It's how do we build bridges back to one another?
1:31.1	And how do we prevent ourselves from being ideologically captured and emotionally brought to extremes?
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