The Emotionally Absent Mother

How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect, Second Edition

By: Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC

Narrated by: Emily Durante

The groundbreaking guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed.

Was your mother preoccupied, distant, or even demeaning? Have you struggled with relationships - or with your own self-worth? Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can't quite put a finger on what's missing from their lives. The children of abusive mothers, by contrast, may recognize the abuse - but overlook its lasting, harmful effects. Psychotherapist Jasmin Lee Cori has helped thousands of men and women heal the hidden wounds left by every kind of undermothering. In this second edition of her pioneering book, with compassion for mother and child alike, she explains:

• Possible reasons your mother was distracted or hurtful - and what she was unable to give
• The lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect and abuse
• How to find the child inside you and fill the "mother gap" through reflections and exercises
• How to secure a happier future for yourself (and perhaps for your children)

©2017 Jasmin Lee Cori (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"This book is a revelation to those of us whose mothering was short of what we needed." (Connie Dawson, PhD, coauthor of Growing up Again)

Wonderfully insightful

I ate this book in a couple of days and feel more in tune not only with myself but with my mother. I had a solider like mother and father that didn't take to kindly to tears or to whining. But now I see it's because they, themselves fear of being weak themselves and screwing me up by spoiling me. Tough parents but honest in their motives.

Enlightening♡

Wonderful read, I have read many on this subject but found information in this book I'd never heard before. It was very helpful and wonderfully narrated.♡

Fast track to inner healing

For those having had a difficult mother, this is a necessary book. Doing the work to heal and grow after having had a difficult mother, is a difficult journey, but we must do it. This book has helped me work through things faster than I'd otherwise be able to. Counseling is a necessary and helpful tool. I find that this book helps me heal the roots of the issues faster than I'd otherwise be able to. This book is the fast track to dealing with and healing inner wounds.

Tough and True insights can be gained

Powerful insight into the struggles many adults face daily and the possible source of our struggles.

Amazing healing book!

Author gave examples of different neglectful mothers and also gave tools to work through the emotional neglect as an adult.