You mother everyone. Who mothers you?

You tend your children's every need, soothe everyone's hurts, carry everyone's worries. And somewhere in all that caring, you have gone untended - the one who nurtures everyone while receiving little nurture herself. Mothering the Mother offers a tender answer to an old question: you can become your own good mother, giving yourself the same warmth and care you give so freely to everyone else.

With gentle, insightful wisdom, Catherine Ashworth guides you through the quiet art of mothering yourself. You'll learn to comfort your own distress as you would comfort a hurting child, to soften the harsh inner critic into a kind inner mother, to notice and honour the needs you habitually dismiss, and to allow yourself the rest and play and nourishment you provide so readily for others.

For the woman who was not herself well mothered, this book offers something deeper still: the healing work of re-parenting yourself, of becoming for yourself, at last, the good mother you needed and may not have had. And it gently teaches what so many giving women never learned - how to receive care as well as give it, completing the circle so that you, too, are held.

This is not a book about giving less to others. It is about including yourself in the circle of care - so that you are no longer the unmothered mother, but a woman who mothers herself as tenderly as she mothers everyone else. Who mothers the mother? You can. And here is how.