THE GROUNDBREAKING GUIDE TO SELF-HEALING, AND GETTING THE LOVE YOU MISSED
‘Years ago, I was on vacation and read The Emotionally Absent Mother. That book was one of many that woke me up… I began the process of reparenting and it’s changed my life.’ Dr. Nicole LePera, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do the Work
Was your mother preoccupied or distant? Did she regularly demean you? Have you struggled with relationships – or with your own self-worth?
Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can’t quite put a finger on what’s missing from their lives. The children of abusive mothers, by contrast, may recognize the abuse – but overlook its lasting, harmful effects.
Psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori has helped thousands of women and men heal the hidden wounds left by every kind of undermothering. In the second edition of this pioneering book, with compassion for mother and child alike, she explains:
– Possible reasons your mother was distracted or hurtful – and what she was unable to give
– The lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect and abuse
– How to find the child inside you and fill the ‘mother gap’ through reflections and exercises
– How to secure a happier future for yourself
– How to break free from the pattern of neglect and abuse with children you have now or may have in the future.
‘Years ago, I was on vacation and read The Emotionally Absent Mother. That book was one of many that woke me up… I began the process of reparenting and it’s changed my life.’ Dr. Nicole LePera, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do the Work
Was your mother preoccupied or distant? Did she regularly demean you? Have you struggled with relationships – or with your own self-worth?
Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can’t quite put a finger on what’s missing from their lives. The children of abusive mothers, by contrast, may recognize the abuse – but overlook its lasting, harmful effects.
Psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori has helped thousands of women and men heal the hidden wounds left by every kind of undermothering. In the second edition of this pioneering book, with compassion for mother and child alike, she explains:
– Possible reasons your mother was distracted or hurtful – and what she was unable to give
– The lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect and abuse
– How to find the child inside you and fill the ‘mother gap’ through reflections and exercises
– How to secure a happier future for yourself
– How to break free from the pattern of neglect and abuse with children you have now or may have in the future.
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Reviews
Years ago, I was on vacation and read The Emotionally Absent Mother. That book was one of many that woke me up... I began the process of reparenting and it's changed my life.
This book is a revelation to those of us whose mothering was short of what we needed. The author sensitively and authoritatively weaves developmental principles into a compassionate understanding of what it means to be under-mothered.
With compassion and sparkling clarity, Jasmin Lee Cori describes the effects of being under-mothered and what it takes to overcome them. Her book will be of great value to new mothers serious about creating a loving environment for their children, adult sons and daughters who want at long last to fill the holes in their hearts, and clinicians interested in understanding and healing the mother wound.
Jasmin Lee Cori has done a superb job of describing the importance of childhood attachment needs and the psychological wounds that get inflicted when an emotionally absent mother cannot meet those needs well enough. She has skilfully laid out clear steps wounded adults can take to identify their inner strengths and heal attachment wounds. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for anyone who wishes to understand and heal the wounds that can arise when parented by an emotionally absent mother.
This book effortlessly intertwines neuroscience with clinical acumen in a lovely work of extraordinary depth. In her compelling, heart-rending analysis of the importance of motherhood, Jasmin Lee Cori has created a work as significant as Alice Miller's Prisoners of Childhood. Easily accessible and very useful, it is a must-read for parents-to-be, those in the helping professions, and adults who have been wounded by a negligent parent.
With a compassionate and steady voice, Jasmin Lee Cori guides the reader through the difficult terrain faced by adults who have grown up without sufficient emotional mothering. Relying on personal experience and practice as a psychotherapist, she provides insight and tools to help readers overcome the challenges of a painful childhood and to move into the pleasures of living adult life fully.