Tina Sharane’s Reviews > The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect > Status Update

Chapter 11!!! 🫶🏾

I am prioritizing finishing this book this month! 😮‍💨 It has been on my “Currently Reading” for much too long smh... But it is quite a necessary read for me at this point in my life, so I refuse to DNF it.

I already know that this next chapter, Chapter 11 “Inner Child Work” is going to be the most impactful to me for spiritual reasons. ✨

“Healing requires letting go of fantasies and if-only's and accepting actual circumstances and limitations.”

The section on “Narcissism” in the “What's Wrong with Mother?” chapter is sooooo validating for me that I needed to take a mental pause to fully accept & absorb this newfound validation of my life experience. 😮‍💨

Definitely taking my time to slowly digest all this wisdom and insight this time around... Not a book that you can just read through without actually processing all the information in each chapter.

Sidenote: I fixed my annotation mistake lol! Well... It looks more presentable haha. I know better going forward though. 🥹

Annotation mistake!!! 🥺😭 Picking up another read until my perfectionist heart heals...