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

If you are alive, then you need to read this book. Sometimes healing is not about fixing what is readily apparent to us as a behavioral or character flaw, but what we search and find in our behavior and self that no longer serves us. Reading this book is not an easy nor pleasant experience as it encourages recalling things you probably deemed irrelevant to your present and future; nonetheless very rewarding in enabling you to reach out to the past and untangle complex emotions and memories you thought were untouchable. I did not grow up in a typical family, and none of the directives were limiting, nor patronizing. The author lays out a framework that is useful and extensible in many ways, and I can see it serving as a blueprint for show more decades of growing as a person, healing as a daughter and perhaps becoming a better mother when the time comes. show less