From the experienced family therapist, Dr. Karyl McBride, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? is an essential guide for recovery for women with narcissistic, emotionally abusive, and toxic mothers, designed to help daughters reclaim their lives.
This book, the first of its kind for daughters who have suffered abuse from narcissistic and self-centered mothers, provides the specialized help you need to overcome this devastating history and reclaim your life. Drawing on over twenty years of experience as a therapist specializing in women's health and hundreds of interviews with suffering daughters, Dr. Karyl McBride helps you recognize the widespread consequences of this emotional abuse and create a personalized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.
Narcissistic mothers teach their daughters that love is not unconditional, but only offered when they behave according to the expectations and moods of the mother. As adults, these daughters struggle to overcome feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, emotional emptiness, and sadness. They may also experience a fear of rejection that leads them to form unhealthy romantic relationships, as well as a tendency towards perfectionism and relentless self-criticism or self-destruction and frustration.
Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will allow you to: (1) Recognize your own experience with your mother's narcissism and its impact on all areas of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized the verbal and non-verbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into superiority or self-destruction (3) Create a personalized program to take control of your life and enhance your sense of self by setting healthy boundaries with your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse.
With warmth and engagement, Dr. McBride brings a deep level of authority to Will I Ever Be Good Enough? that encourages and inspires as it contributes to your recovery.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Karyl McBride
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Award
- -
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 243
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781439129432
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