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A Mother Loss Workbook: Healing Exercises for Daughters

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I found this book to be extremely helpful as I went through the process of mourning the loss of my mother. It helped in so many ways! I was able to understand my mixed feelings. I felt almost like I had lost my identity--but this book, chapter by chapter helped me work through all my different emotions. I feel like I am no longer lost-without the "anchor" of my family! I remember joyfully all the happy family times with my mother and I feel I have come to know a lot more about the person she was- I highly recommend this book to anyone who has lost their mother recently or many years ago!

I happened upon this book because a friend of mine suggested a book called "Motherless Daughters". This book came up in the search and I thought a workbook would be a great idea. What the description does not tell you is that this book is targeted solely to women that lost their mothers when they were children or teens. It is not geared towards women that lost their mothers as adults. In the forward, Gail Eisenberg states she responded to an add that specifically wanted women who lost their mothers during childhood and adolescence for this book. In chapter 2 the book states whether you were a young child or a college student..." This book may be great for women who lost mothers during childhood or adolescence but it does not address nor is it designed to address the needs of women like myself who lost mothers after our 20's - adult women . If you lost your mother when you were an adult, this book was not intended for you. The authors or amazon probably should have noted that somewhere for grieving women in seek of help.

There is nothing like the loss of a mother. I bought the book, worked through the work book, and joined a yahoo group called motherless daughters. I owe a lot of my courage to live on to the book and wonderful people I met.

I am a family therapist and bereavement counselor. I found the book helpful in it's straight forward manner of explaining and normalizing the feelings of loss that are natural when a female grows up without a mother or a woman of any age loses her mother. I wondered if people would really take the time to do the whole workbook, as it is a lot of thinking and writing. But, even if certain sections are not relavent to the reader, it provides a comfort to know that grievers are not alone. The book puts the past and the future in perspective which many people who are suffering with loss can't see. I used it as a reference for my Daughter's Who Have Lost Their Mother's group.

It seems most women could benefit from this whether or not they had lost a Mother, as we deal with so many types of loss. Effective tool for a beginng look at grieving.

I lost my mom in infancy so a lot of the work book is difficult, especially because I don't know much about my father's family and most of my mother's relatives are gone. This is very good for any young woman who lost her mother.

I bought this book several years ago and still haven't been through the entire book yet. But, I find when I'm needing it I somehow gravitate to the book and find a helpful section. It's really a lifelong process. I wish I had known that fact. It would have really helped me get through the second and third years which I found to be harder than the first.

MOTHER DEAR

(Oh mother dear, I miss you like never before)

Where are your warm hugs?
Have they cracked and wilted in your empty arms

Where are your sweet smiles?
Have they dried and shriveled on your cold lips

Where are your funny jokes?
Have they turned to dust and lay at your feet
To whom will comfort me?
To whom will dry my tears?
To whom will I lay my head,
When no one else is near?

(Oh mother dear, I need you more than ever)

Where have you been?
Have you finally been laid to rest

Where are you now?
Are you flying high with the angels?
OR
Are you down in the deep dark well?

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