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

Even when you were part of the dance, as in the complicated situation where both mother and child mirror each other’s turning away, it is the…

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Attachment has significant impact on our brain development, mental health, and future relationships.

There is grace in the healing process, so although it’s not like one good cry can make up for years of repressed sadness, it can take you further down the field than you might think.

A large part of healing is stepping out of the limited story we replay about our mother and actually letting her emerge as a person. We need to see her life as it was.

They would have been more comfortable doing something else, perhaps living a career life or being a social dilettante.

When you see a tender mother-child interaction, you are emotionally triggered.

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The open heart, with its compassion, is perhaps the most important resource we have for working with our pain.

Therapists sometimes refer to the sense of power as self-efficacy or a sense of “agency” (as in being an agent acting on your environment).