SELF-DEVELOPMENT
A Great Book for Understanding your Relationship with your Mother
The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed by Jasmin Lee Cori
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Have you ever had trouble as an adult connecting to your mother? You want to further develop the relationship, but there seems to be a wall between you two. You are not the only one, everyone has a complex relationship with their mother that impacts their life from childhood until adulthood.
“Few experiences in life are as deep as the feelings we carry about our mothers. The roots of some of these feelings are lost in the dark recesses of proverbial experience. The branches go every which way, some holding glorious, sun-drenched moments, while others are broken off, leaving sharp and jagged edges that we get caught on. Mother is not a simple subject.”
— The Emotionally Absent Mother, Jasmin Lee Cori
The good news is we can heal the unloved, unheard, unseen child and become empowered, loving adults. A book that I’ve recently read, mainly because I wanted to understand the dynamics between mother and child, is The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed by Jasmin Lee Cori.
I have to say that even if you think you have the best mother in the world, and that your relationship works well, this book can help you find if you are suppressing any trauma. I, myself have a good relationship with my mother, but I’ve often wondered if it can be improved.
“Any relationship as complex as that between mother and child is going to include both love and hate. Most young children feel moments of hatred when their needs or wishes are frustrated, although many children won’t dare to express this, their bond with Mommy was far too fragile.”
— The Emotionally Absent Mother, Jasmin Lee Cori
