Lots of good points made

This book is a good introduction to mother wombs.. a good self help book easy to understand

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Great read for newbies to the mother wound

A good comprehensive tale, clearly outlines the mother wound and ways in which it shows up in the daily woman's life, great narration, easy to listen too

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brilliant

relevant for current times and essential book for most of the women. I will listen twice or three times.

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Great, but listen with an open mind

This book is important and will really help the reader understand the dynamic between mother and daughter, particularly when it's a tricky one.

However there were elements of the book that felt icky and toxic and under-minded the important message. I wish there was more empathy for mothers. I'm still unpicking why it made me feel uneasy but i think it boils down to the the messaging that you need to cut your mother out if she doesn't behave how you want her to when you confront her of all her ills.

Bethany's own personal story is important, but i feel it has too much text dedicated to it.

That said, there were some real a-ha moments for me and its been an important read in my self improvement journey.

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Beautiful, honest, personal and liberating!

I’ve followed Bethany Webster online for some time. I was thrilled to hear that she was writing a book and excitedly awaited it. I bought the audiobook immediately.

Bethany is a beautiful soul, her work is compassionate, wholesome, generous, encouraging, hopeful, balanced and full of love. I’m so grateful that Bethany has written about her personal journey, growth and fulfilment. Difficult childhoods hurt millions of us. We feel broken, silenced, struggle and feel hopeless. We blame ourselves and become embedded in treading a path that we feel we cannot leave. We can.

How beautiful to hear Bethany encourage women to take up our rightful voice, space, womanhood and heal from within. I wholeheartedly urge my sisters to open your heart and mind, body and soul, to listen or read this book, get involved with Bethany’s online community and find a way through the darkness.

My life is nothing like Bethany’s. However, the boot or patriarchy is ever present, reminding me that I am a woman and therefore lesser than man. How wonderful for women to be able to live unashamed, valid, equal, loved and safe. We can.

I am a mother and I listened to this book with my mother lenses. I love being a mother. There is NOTHING greater than enabling my grown womanchild to know her value, worth and be heard with her own beautiful voice. I can and have and will continue to be sensitive to every hurtful cycle that I realise and make it good if I can. This is the privilege of healing the mother wound. We can close the mother gap and draw our daughters closer so that they will never want to repeat the patriarchal cycle.

This book encourages spiritual growth within us, defies patriarchy, encourages us to stand up straight and keep moving forward. Women matter, our lives are sacred and rich. The awful harmful cycle of patriarchy ends in our homes when we expose it and blast it open. We can reach the unconscious harm, motivations and inner turmoil and live a conscious, open, relaxed, liberated life - and help our sisters too.

Thank you Bethany for sharing your life work with the world. I hope that all women and men will read this book and find that peaceful, contented, space that is rightfully yours. Patriarchy harms us all. We can all heal from the deep wounds it causes.

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An interesting, but sometimes frustrating, book

There are definitely some really helpful and profound messages in this book, I did also feel some negatives though. I’ll start with the positives; this book opened up some interesting reflection in me, especially with regard to thinking about family dynamics and my relationship with my mum.

It was quite profound to explore how patriarchy moulds our families and, in turn, our own identities as daughters. I feel that this book would be especially helpful for women who suffered abuse or mistreatment at the hands of their mothers, by helping us to realise that we aren’t responsible for our mother’s actions or pain. My favourite part of the book was the chapter on cultivating our inner-mother and I would have enjoyed learning more about this.

Now for the negatives; although the author says that this book isn’t about blaming mothers for our pain, I felt an overwhelming amount of blame was targeted at mother everywhere. Every issue or difficulty which daughters experience is caused by their mothers. For all the talk of showering ourselves and other women in empathy, I didn’t feel much empathy towards mothers. At some points I felt that the author ‘othered’ mums, that’s to say she talks about mothers as though they are somehow a different species to other women. There was some reflection on the historic and social circumstances which may have led our mothers to struggle with emotions, but I didn’t feel the author really grasped that many older women simply didn’t have the tools, insight or opportunities to be ‘enlightened’ women. If our mothers have fallen short or mistreated us then simply labelling them as ‘selfish, unenlightened, unwilling to do the work of self-actualisation’ does an injustice to women everywhere. If there was one message which I could pass on to the author it would be this: mothers, even the bad ones, are people too.

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Enlightening, informative & revolutionary

Bethany is such a key truth speaker in this powerful and incredibly uncomfortable reflective practice. So grateful for Bethany in sharing her own painful and transformative story to help the collective healing community. Highly recommended.

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A book you will read again and again

Amazing insights and Bethany’s personal experience make this book so rich, powerful and meaningful to those who who have gone through guilt, shame and fear with a parent. I’ve gained so much understanding and was comforted knowing that our experiences were similar in many ways.

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