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The Emotionally Absent Mother

by Jasmin Lee Cori

The Emotionally Absent Mother
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7th November 2024

Price: £15.99

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Advice On Parenting / Coping With Personal Problems / Family & Health / Family & Relationships / Trauma & Shock

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781399822206

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THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO SELF-HEALING, AND GETTING THE LOVE YOU MISSED


“I definitely learn so much about myself and the mother wound I carry, which is the first step to figuring out how to heal it!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Profoundly validating book for those who have been unmothered.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“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


Have you struggled with relationships, self-worth, or a sense that something important is missing?

Was your mother preoccupied or distant? Did she regularly demean you? 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 may recognize the abuse, but overlook its lasting effects.


In The Emotionally Absent Mother, psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori draws on her experience helping thousands of women and men heal the hidden wounds left by every kind of undermothering. With compassion for mother and child alike, she explores what emotionally absent or abusive parenting looks like and how recovery is possible.


Begin healing the ‘mother gap’ and build a happier future

  • Understand the possible reasons your mother was distracted, unavailable, or hurtful

  • Recognise the lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect and abuse

  • Reconnect with your inner child through guided reflections and exercises

  • Learn how to fill the ‘mother gap’ and strengthen your sense of self-worth

  • Break free from cycles of neglect and create healthier relationships for future generations


A compassionate, eye-opening and practical guide to healing childhood wounds and creating lasting emotional wellbeing.

Reviews

Dr Nicole LePera, ‘New York Times’-bestselling author of ‘How to Do the Work’
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.
Connie Dawson, PhD, co-author of ‘Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children’
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.
Evelyn Bassoff, PhD, psychotherapist and author of ‘Mothering Ourselves: Help and Healing for Adult Daughters’
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.
Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC, author of ‘The Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy: An Ego State Therapy for Healing Adults with Childhood Trauma and Attachment Wounds’
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.
Kate Crowley, OTD, OTR/L, University of Southern California
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.
Kathryn Black, MA, psychotherapist, author of ‘Mothering Without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within’
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.