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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An amazing book which I read google eyed as each experience tallied with my own. I have only given it four stars because I don't think the second half which is about how to deal with the problem was as strong, BUT the diagnosis section is amazing. I spent most of the evening going Oh My God, this is me. There is a kind of reassurance in realising that the unspoken fact that ones mother is not a nice person is a shared experience.
I wish I had read this book twenty years ago.
I wish I had read this book twenty years ago.
58 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you've spent all your adult life desperately trying to get your mother's approval, and wearing yourself out trying to achieve her eternally changing levels of perfection, then I'm sure, like me, you have a library full of these kind of self help books.
Karyl McBride's book is one of the useful ones - there were loads of examples which rang a bell with me. Like a woman who had made her mother a gift, which got put in the bottom of a drawer, because it 'didn't go' with the decor.
One idea I have found a little creepy, is the suggestion that we should buy a doll that represents us as a child, and we 'mother' the doll like we feel we should have been mothered. I can see what she is trying to achieve, I know I was never allowed to be pretty or choose my own clothes or hairstyle while growing up, but that idea sounds a bit artificial.
Other books worth getting are Toxic Parents, Stalking the Soul, and When you and your mother can't be friends.
Karyl McBride's book is one of the useful ones - there were loads of examples which rang a bell with me. Like a woman who had made her mother a gift, which got put in the bottom of a drawer, because it 'didn't go' with the decor.
One idea I have found a little creepy, is the suggestion that we should buy a doll that represents us as a child, and we 'mother' the doll like we feel we should have been mothered. I can see what she is trying to achieve, I know I was never allowed to be pretty or choose my own clothes or hairstyle while growing up, but that idea sounds a bit artificial.
Other books worth getting are Toxic Parents, Stalking the Soul, and When you and your mother can't be friends.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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What a relief to know there are other women out there with the same predicament as mine. Easy to read without going into medical/ pyschological bla-bla. It gave great insight into what I've been going through and didn't know how to pinpoint. I've read it twice so far in the few days I've had it, have highlighted many passages. Will need a couple more thorough reads before I can overcome that the problem doesn't lie with ME. OK, I might not agree with ALL of it, but it has boosted my self-esteem.
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No life is the same but this shares much of mine ....
I have just got this book so not fully read it all yet - but I must say that what I have read so far makes complete sense - it helps to understand what has happened , will help... Read more
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This book has literally saved my life. I can now safely say I am in recovery.
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This book is phenomenal, and I have finally found a self help book that explains me. If you are the daughter of a mother who didn't seem to care, then this book is for you. Read more
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Quite simply, life changing
I came across this book by accident and it, and the websites etc it led me to, gave me the answer I'd been looking for all my life i.e. Read more
Published 8 months ago by S. Swaine
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After having to go no contact with my parents because of my mothers behavior,blaming myself,full of guilt,and thinking i was the only one,i looked for answers on the internet and... Read more
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As the daughter of a narcissistic mother I found this read both painful and enlightening. Painful as I could identify with so many of the case studies and behaviours of myself and... Read more
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