A daughter may grow up with motherless symptoms because she is missing her mother’s attention and attunement. Attention is essential to nurturing and protecting. To feel loved, children need their mother’s emotional attunement as well as her physical presence. The absence of maternal emotional availability directly impacts the quality of her care. Lack of maternal attunement happens for many reasons, such as work demands, smartphones and screens, various addictions, or poor health. A mother’s own unhealed psychological coping can impair her capacity for attention and attunement, removing her
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