'A Mothers Apart' book

Award winning, 'A Mother Apart: How to let go of guilt and find happiness living apart from your child', is a compassionate and reassuring self-help book for women living apart from their children, whatever the cause or reason.


'A Mother Apart' can help you if you are...

• A mum who has regular or sporadic contact or access with her children
• A mother who no longer sees her child due to family break up
• A partner, grandmother, family member, or friend who is supporting a mother apart
• A social worker, family court or legal professional working with Children Act Proceedings who would like to better understand mothers living apart from their children

It can also help if you are...

• A woman who is divorced or in the process of divorcing or separating from the father of your children
• A mum who has lost residency or custody and needs help with managing grief and trauma of separation
• A mother who has residency or custody and would like to know how to manage shared parenting more effectively
• A  birth mother whose children have been adopted or fostered, a mum whose child has been abducted abroad or mother who been rejected by an adult child

However you came to live apart from your children, 'A Mother Apart' provides understanding approaches to help you manage complex situations and strong emotions, including how to:

• Understand and free yourself from excessive guilt and shame manage difficult feelings connected with pain, loss, anger, grief and trauma
• Explore and find positive ways of dealing with circumstances such as being stigmatised, judged, rejected and excluded through parental alienation tactics
• Learn the art of big hearted mothering: deep love from afar, over time
• Build confidence to integrate your life as a mother apart from your child and independent woman
• Review and develop your relationship with your child
• Develop amicable shared parenting relationships with your child’s father, your ex husband or partner’s new partner and other family members
• Make decisions about your future, including having new relationships, remarrying, having another baby and being a stepmother, with confidence
• Fully appreciate how the capacity to love deeply from afar makes you one of the most extraordinary mothers in the world

My dearest wish is that you will find plenty of experience, practical strategies, tips and above all, hope in the book.

You deserve a full and happy life!