A Mother Apart: How to Let Go of Guilt and Find Happiness Living Apart from Your Child
by Sarah Hart (9781845900946)

The number of mothers living apart from their children continues to rise. Women leave their children, lose custody, lose touch, choose part-time motherhood or find themselves with no contact at all, for a whole range of reasons. A Mother Apart: How to let go of guilt and find happiness living apart from your child moves beyond the stigma linked to mothers who leave their children and offers understanding and practical support to help mothers come to terms with their emotions, as they adjust to and come to terms with life apart from their children. This book provides insight and sympathetic approaches to help manage complex situations and strong emotions, including how to:
bull; Understand and free yourself from excessive guilt and other difficult feelings
bull; Grieve your loss but move on with an open heart
bull; Learn the art of big hearted mothering: deep love from afar, over time
bull; Find positive ways to integrate your life as a mother apart and as an independent woman
bull; Understand that the capacity to love from afar makes you a most extraordinary mother
This book's primary audience is mothers who consciously choose to leave their children or who find themselves separated due to circumstances out of their control, i.e., sharing or losing custody, children taken into foster care, mental illness, or abduction. The secondary audience includes caring relatives and friends, new or inexperienced partners, counselors working with women, and services that support women going through divorce and separation.

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