Mother Wound Resources

Find helpful resources for understanding and healing mother wounds, including a quiz, books, blog posts, podcasts, and TED or TEDx Talks.

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CALLING HOME With Whitney Goodman, LMFT
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Licensed therapist Whitney Goodman focuses on difficult family relationships, emotionally immature parents, estrangement, boundaries, guilt, childhood emotional neglect, and breaking unhealthy family patterns. The podcast is updated weekly and frequently addresses difficult mother-adult child relationships.
Mother Mayhem — For Daughters of Narcissistic or Emotionally Limited Mothers
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Hosted by licensed therapist Heather Gray, this podcast is specifically for adult daughters dealing with narcissistic, emotionally immature, emotionally abusive, or unavailable mothers. Topics include guilt, self-doubt, people-pleasing, boundaries, estrangement, emotional neglect, and rebuilding self-trust.
The Mother Wound Project
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A current weekly podcast centered specifically on mother wounds. Episodes discuss emotionally immature mothers, guilt, family obligation, low contact, boundaries, perfectionism, self-worth, and recognizing when promises of change are not matched by consistent behavior.
The Black Mother Wound Podcast
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A popular weekly podcast exploring difficult mother-daughter relationships specifically within the experiences of Black women. It discusses generational patterns, boundaries, people-pleasing, identity, difficult family roles, and how childhood relationship patterns can continue into friendships and romantic relationships.

The Mother Wound: 5 Ways to Deal With the Mom Stuff You’re Still Carrying — Not Your Therapist
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Therapist Kayla Reilly discusses emotionally unavailable mothers, critical parenting, enmeshment, parentification, people-pleasing, boundaries, self-worth, and the grief of not receiving the kind of mothering you needed. The episode also gives practical steps for challenging the mother’s critical voice that may still influence your thinking.

The Mother Factor: Acceptance Works Both Ways — Rick Miller, LICSW
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Therapist Rick Miller examines why relationships with mothers can continue to affect people well into adulthood. He draws on his work with mothers and adult children to explore acceptance, conflict, repair, and changing the relationship once the child is grown.
Finding Happiness: How Forgiving My Mother Radically Changed My Life — Sonia Weyers
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Sonia Weyers describes growing up feeling unloved by her mother and the effect that relationship continued to have on her adulthood. She discusses working through resentment and deciding how she wanted her past relationship with her mother to influence the rest of her life.
Narcissism and Its Discontents — Ramani Durvasula
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Clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula explains narcissistic traits such as entitlement, lack of empathy, anger, arrogance, and extreme sensitivity underneath apparent confidence. Although it is not limited to mothers, it can help people better understand difficult parental relationships where these patterns are present.
Ticked-Off Teen Daughters & Stressed-Out Moms: 3 Keys — Colleen O’Grady
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Focuses on conflict between mothers and daughters and gives practical ways to change repeated communication patterns. It is particularly useful for understanding how mother-daughter tension can develop and how healthier interaction can be built before those patterns continue into adulthood.

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