A groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global impact of intergenerational trauma passed down from mothers to daughters, and methods for overcoming this destructive cycle.

Why do women try to live quietly and unnoticed? Why do they hold back in their professional and personal lives? What fuels the insecurity they often experience? In this book, leading feminist thinker Bettany Webster gets to the root of women's psychological trauma. She calls it mother wound and shows how destructive beliefs and behaviors are passed down from wounded mothers to their daughters.

Through her workshops, courses, and lectures, Webster has helped countless women reexamine their lives and relationships with their mothers, empowering them to properly express their pain and encouraging them to share their experiences. In this manifesto and self-help guide, she offers practical tools for identifying the manifestations of mother wound in our daily lives and strategies we...