Introduction

The Mother Wound Group is an online therapy group for adults healing from painful or complicated relationships with their mothers or early attachment figures. This group supports people who struggle with self-worth, boundaries, guilt, emotional neglect, people-pleasing, or feeling responsible for others’ emotions.

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Program Overview

The Mother Wound Group (MWG) is based on the work of Kelly McDaniel and the attachment wound of never feeling good enough for our mother. MWG is designed is for women who struggle with people pleasing, boundaries, and self-worth/feeling inadequate.

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Signs you are a Candidate for Mother Wound Group‍

‍Here are some questions to see if you are good candidate for group:


• Do you feel a gnawing emptiness inside? 
• Do you ask yourself, “will I ever be good enough”? 
• Do you get the sense that you are inherently “defective” or "bad"? 
• Do you fear if people really got to know you, they would reject you? 
• Do you feel like your brain bullies you? 
• Is intimacy both your greatest fear and greatest longing?

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What the Group Covers

Topics that may be explored in sessions:

• Learning what we didn’t get from our mother and attachment figures
• How we can heal from loss nurture, guidance, and protection
• Processing what it was like to be our mother’s daughter
• Turnings from negative self talk to self-compassion
• Boundaries and healthy relationship dynamics
• Rebuilding self-worth

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Why Group Therapy Is Effective

The benefits of group therapy.
Group therapy is very impactful for attachment work because it lets us know we are not alone in this struggle and will find the supportive benefits of hearing our story in another person’s.


• Shared experiences create understanding and deep connections

• Weekly support and discussions with people who finally get it.
• Strong sense of belonging and feeling seen
• Accelerated learning due to multiple perspectives
• Reduction in shame and loneliness with our pain

• Continued support, guidance, and safety as we navigate relationships and loss