Healing the Unmothered Child
Few if any women can escape having some kind of emotional reaction when they are reminded of their relationship with their mother. It is perhaps the most emotionally charged relationship we will ever have.
Whether a woman’s mother was warm and loving, absent, distant or destructive, a daughter has to be willing to give to herself what she needed from her mother. Despite her good intentions, a daughter who did not receive adequate mothering, often grows up repeating the very behaviors that hurt her so much as a child. Sufficient mothering is defined as giving a daughter a sense of self worth, a sense of being protected, and the guidance she needs to make her way in the world. If a daughter does not receive the mothering she needs, she usually dedicates her life to either winning her mother’s approval or scorning it.
"Healing the Unmothered Child" serves as a guide for women who want to heal from troubled relationships with their mothers and learn to become their own good mother. It examines the importance of a daughter's very first relationship and how much it sets the stage for all her relationships that follow. The use of a timeline provides a guide for the daughter to view her relationship with her mother through the eyes of the woman she has become and acknowledge her mother’s efforts as well as her own.
The purpose of my book is not to bash one’s mother, but to help the reader realistically view her for the person she is, rather than just the mother she needed her to be. A woman can release herself and her mother when she stops waiting for her mother to change and takes the reins of her own life and gently makes her way forward.
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