The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

Jasmin Lee Cori, M.S., LPC

Jun 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Emily Durante

About this audiobook

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 mother's own history, and how you can fill the "mother gap" by: - Examining the past with compassion for yourself and your mother - Finding the child inside of you and learning to mother yourself - Opening to the archetype of the Good Mother - Allowing friends and loved ones to provide support, guidance, and other elements of good mothering that you missed 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 today's undermothered adults to cultivate the mothering they missed, she helps them secure a happier future-for themselves and their children.

Ratings and reviews

makes sense, right on! Enlightening! Paves way for you to heal- DV

About the author

Jasmin Lee Cori, MS, LPC, specializes in working with adults who experienced childhood abuse and neglect. She has worked in human service agencies and private practice and taught in colleges and professional schools. She is the author of five previous books, including Healing from Trauma.

Emily Durante has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years and is also an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook director. She has been acting since the age of seven and has performed in a number of stage productions at the professional, collegiate, and regional levels.