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

Been slowly digesting and thoroughly annotating this book since July & I'm determined to finish it before the end of 2025! 🤞🏾 Although this is a book that will be reread multiple times in order to fully grasp all the healing wisdom and inner guidance it offers.

“When you know you can change things, you are no longer a victim.”

That girl BIG mood reading with 6 completely different genres of books in rotation! 😵‍💫

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. 😮‍💨