A book about how connection with your mother affects self-esteem and your basic sense of safety.
You will be introduced to therapeutic practices that help heal long-standing wounds and build warmer relationships with loved ones.
Relationships with one’s mother in a special way set the trajectory of an entire life. What they were like largely determines our self-worth and how we perceive safety, freedom, and trust.
But what if there has never been warm contact with your mother? Is it possible to make up for the lack of maternal care? How can you unravel the tangle of illusions and myths about the “good mother,” and build relationships with your children that include love and acceptance? Psychologist-practitioners Yulia Zotova and Maria Letucheva, the authors of the book “It’s All About Dad,” consider motherhood from several angles—those of the child, the parent, and the specialist. You will learn how the mother figure affects a child at different stages of growing up, what basic functions a mother performs, and how they differ from a father’s. And most importantly, how to work with the consequences of a deficit of maternal attention and communication.
The book includes therapeutic practices for working with the image of the mother: they will help strengthen or restore your bond with your mom, process old traumas, and create support for your own happy motherhood.
The exercises are suitable both for independent work and for use in professional practice by educators, psychologists, and psychotherapists.
With this book, you will learn:
· how to work through negative experience with your mother;
· how to compensate for a deficit of maternal attention;
· how a “good mother” differs from a socially approved image;
· how to become a caring and loving mother for your children.