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By Shaffa
Available now on Amazon
There is something some parents carry that no one talks about.
Not exhaustion. Not the frustration of a hard day. Not postpartum depression or the challenge of a difficult child.
Something more specific than any of those things.
Something that arrives in the presence of a particular child before a single word has been spoken. Something that coexists with genuine love in ways that make no logical sense. Something that has been lived in complete and punishing silence by more parents than anyone has ever been willing to count.
What is it? Where does it come from? And why has no book ever named it directly?
Until now.
I bring something to this reading experience that most authors do not.
I bring you back to yourself.
Every chapter, every reflection, every truth in this book is designed to deepen your own clarity about your own experience. By the time you reach the final page you will not have received my interpretation of what you feel. You will have arrived at your own. And that arrival will be more lasting, more transformative, and more fully yours than anything I could have handed you.
That is the kind of healing that sticks.
You love your child but something blocks the warmth from reaching them freely and you have never understood why.
You carry a feeling toward a specific child that frightens you when you look at it honestly and you have never been able to say it out loud to anyone.
You grew up knowing that something was missing in the way a parent looked at you and you have spent years trying to name what it was.
You have done the therapy, the journaling, and the inner work and something in this specific relationship still will not move.
You are both readers at once. The parent who carries the feeling and the adult child who grew up feeling it. In many families these are the same person.
If you are nodding as you read this, this book is for you.
This book walks into the silence.
It names what lives there.
And it shows the way through.
It traces the feeling to its roots across every dimension where it lives. Psychological. Generational. Energetic. Spiritual. It does not ask the parent to perform love more convincingly or manage the feeling more carefully. It goes to where the feeling actually comes from and shows the way to heal it at that level.
It introduces the Love Trinity framework. Will, Action, and Energy. And the most important truth in the book. The love was never absent. It was blocked. And what is blocked can be unblocked.
It maps the relay race of generational inheritance and shows why this feeling did not begin with the parent who is carrying it today. And it maps the complete healing path from the blocked love to the freely flowing love that every child was always meant to receive.
The love was never absent. It was blocked. And what is blocked can be unblocked.
The full spectrum of the wound for the first time without flinching and without judgment.
The psychological roots of the feeling including projection, generational trauma, narcissistic wounding, mental health, and circumstance.
The neuroscience of early rejection and what parental emotional absence does to the developing brain and what the research says about healing.
The energetic truth that children always know and what no amount of performance can conceal.
The original Love Trinity framework of Will, Action, and Energy and why blocked love is not absent love.
The soul dimension of the wound including karmic patterns, past life dynamics, and the soul level forgiveness that sets both parent and child free.
The deep practices of self-love, reparenting, inner critic work, and grief that form the complete healing path.
The vision of peace that waits on the other side of the healing.
Part One — The Wound No One Names
The feeling is explored in full across its complete spectrum. The neuroscience of what it does to the child who grows up in its presence. The five survival strategies the rejected child develops. The silence and what it costs.
Part Two — The Parent's Truth
The roots are traced. Psychological projection. Generational transmission. Narcissistic wounding. Mental health. Circumstance. The shame spiral is mapped. The distinction between the feeling and the character is made with absolute clarity.
Part Three — The Soul Dimension
The karmic and past life dimension of the parent and child wound. Soul contracts. Soul level forgiveness. The deeper healing modalities available in the space of trauma and inner healing.
Part Four — The Path of Self Love
Genuine embodied self-love. Coming home to the heart. Reparenting the self. Silencing the inner critic. The energy centers and how they carry and heal the wound.
Part Five — The Healing
Grief and the specific losses that must be named before they can be released. Peace not as the absence of difficulty but as the ground that does not move. The daily practices that sustain the healing in ordinary life.
Shaffa is a writer, coach, teacher, and speaker whose work sits at the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and the lived experience of women. She holds a degree in Psychology and an MSc in Leadership and Management.
She is herself both a rejected child and a mother who discovered, after having children of her own, that the wounds she believed were healed had surfaced in ways she did not expect. The healing work she undertook through that experience is the proof of concept for everything this book offers.
She does not write from the outside looking in. She writes from the other side of the healing, with the authority that only lived experience can produce. The Feeling You Cannot Admit is her first published book and the first of its kind.
The map exists now.
The feeling has a name.
The healing has a path.
And you do not have to find your way through it alone.
The Feeling You Cannot Admit is Coming Soon on Amazon.
Shaffa is the author of The Feeling You Cannot Admit, the first book to name the feeling no parent has ever been allowed to admit. She is a writer, coach, teacher, and speaker. Her work sits at the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and the lived experience of women.
Blessings, Peace & Love to You!

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