Healing From an Emotionally Absent Mother: Learn to Build Trust, Take In Nourishment and Move Past the Wounds Left by Neglect – A Workbook – 9781399822213

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A new workbook to accompany the ground-breaking guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed.

OVER 2000 5-STAR REVIEWS FOR THE EMOTIONALLY ABSENT MOTHER

Distant, emotionally neglectful parenting creates wounds that follow children well into adulthood. As you deal with the impacts as an adult, you might find yourself wondering, Why do I fly into reactive feelings so easily? Why is it so hard to attend to my own needs? Why is it hard for me to trust people to be there for me? Do I need to hide parts of myself to be lovable?

If you’re searching for a way to let go of the pain caused by insufficient mothering, learn to provide yourself with the love you didn’t get as a child, and live a more nourished and fulfilled life, Healing from an Emotionally Absent Mother can help. Distilling key takeaways from the groundbreaking book The Emotionally Absent Mother and offering new insights into the legacy left by emotional neglect, this workbook is designed to guide healing with accessible lessons as you:

• Uncover your childhood experience of emotional neglect
• Identify the ongoing impacts of this neglect
• Reclaim the pieces of yourself you changed or hid for Mother’s sake
• Reparent your young self
• Take advantage of the healing resources available to you
• Learn to accept the love others offer you

  Personal inventories, journaling prompts, small-group discussion questions, and many more hands-on exercises will help you identify the needs that went unmet during childhood and move past the hurt.