num_pages: 240
description: Was your mother too busy too tired or too checked-out to provide you with the nurturing you needed as a child? Men and women who were undermothered as children often struggle with intimate relationships in part because of their unmet need for maternal care. The Emotionally Absent Mother will help you understand what was missing from your childhood how this relates to your mothers own history and how you can fill the mother gap Through reflections exercises and clear explanations psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori helps adult sons and daughters heal the wounds left by mothers who failed to provide the essential ingredients that every child needs. She traces perceived personal defects back to mothering deficits  relieving self-blame. And by teaching todays undermothered adults to cultivate the mothering they missed she helps them secure a happier futurefor themselves and their children.
language: English
title: The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
publisher: The Experiment