I'm really excited to dive into this conversation.

Let's start right at the start.

All right.

Which is, what is the mother wound?

The mother wound, as I define it, is a set of limiting beliefs and patterns that we inherit from our mothers that cause us to limit and self-sabotage ourselves.

One could also say it's how the patriarchal belief that women are less than gets passed through mother to daughter. It's like we bond with our mothers,

but we also bond with her beliefs. And all women, to some degree, have had to internalize

beliefs about not being good enough, about not rocking the boat, about all these beliefs about

what a woman can and should be. So we inherit this to some degree from

our mothers. She might have explicitly or just implicitly shared certain beliefs about what's

possible for women, what's okay, what's taboo. And there can also be trauma between mothers and daughters,

which also is more common than we realize. And it's been a

taboo subject. So this work of the mother wound is about how we receive wounding from our mothers

and how that shapes our sense of self. And it's something that hasn't really been, I don't think,

looked at enough. I think it's the core of like everything for women. And it's not

about blaming mothers. It's not about making mothers wrong or anything like that. Actually,

I think ultimately this will raise respect due to mothers and women as a whole as we do this work.

It's really about healing those intergenerational patterns. Well, I mean, that's kind of my absolute passion.

There's a lot that I want to talk about.

And I almost want to unpick every word that you just said, which we will.

But I'm super curious, how did you come to this work?

You know, you've been studying this 20 plus years.

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