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Transform Your Relationship with Your Difficult Narcissistic Mother

“An empowering book that offers clarity and validation as well as strategies for freeing yourself from the control of an unhealthy mother relationship.” ―Susan Forward Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents and Mothers who Can't Love

#1 Bestseller in Codependency

The best news on the planet is that your mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be happy. In fact, author Karen C.L. Anderson takes it a step further to say, your difficult narcissistic mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be free, peaceful, content, and joyful.

Emotional detachment from your narcissistic mother without guilt. Inspired by her own journey, Anderson shows women how to emotionally separate from their difficult mothers without guilt and anxiety, so they can finally create a life based on their own values, desires, needs, and preferences.

Learn through the experiences of others. The book is filled with personal stories and experiences, practical tools, and journal prompts that can be used now to experience the joy of letting go. Anderson compassionately leads women struggling in their relationships with their toxic mothers through a process of self-awareness and understanding. Her experience with hundreds of women has resulted in cases of profound growth and transformation.

Funny and compassionate. This book is about Karen discovering and accepting the whole of who she is (separate from her mother), and making her discoveries accessible to women struggling to redefine their challenging relationships with their mothers. Her writing is relatable, real, funny, and compassionate.

Inside learn:

  • Why mother daughter relationships can be toxic
  • How to heal and transform your mother "wounds"
  • The art of creating and maintaining impeccable boundaries

If you liked Codependent No More, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, or Henry Cloud's Boundaries, you'll love Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters.

ISBN-13: 9781633537170

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Mango Media

Publication Date: 03-13-2018

Pages: 200

Product Dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

Karen C.L. Anderson is a storyteller who believes that the truth never creates suffering and that all stories can be told through the lens of truth. She is also a feminist, a writer, speaker, workshop presenter, and blogger who consciously chooses to live her life as an experiment and to view the world through the lens of curiosity and fascination. Her previous book, The Peaceful Daughter’s Guide to Separating From A Difficult Mother, is an international best seller, having sold well over 100,000 copies. In another life, Anderson spent 20 years trying to fit her right-brained self into a left-brained career as a trade magazine journalist in the field of plastics (and if she had a dime for every time someone mentioned that line from The Graduate…). She is married to a left-brained engineer and they live in Southeastern Connecticut. Katherine Woodward Thomas is author of the national bestseller, Calling in "The One," a licensed marriage & family therapist, and author of the new book, Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After. She is an inspirational speaker and an internationally recognized relationship expert who has had the privilege of working with over 200,000 people in her virtual and in-person learning communities and has trained and certified hundreds of people as coaches of her highly transformative work. To find out more please go to www.ConsciousUncoupling.com, www.KatherineWoodwardThomas.com or www.CallingInTheOne.com.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A practical and uplifting guide for the scores of women whose relationship with their mothers is less than optimal!”
~ Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: "Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Wellbeing", "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom," and "The Wisdom of Menopause"

“The work that Karen C.L. Anderson is doing with daughters in regards to their mothers is some of the most important work on the planet today. When we understand how influenced our minds are by what happened when we were growing up, we can then decide to let it go. In this book, Karen gives us the steps to do just that. I know from experience that this work is not easy, but it is by far the most important work I have ever done. Let Karen show you the way.”
~ Brooke Castillo, Master Coach Instructor & Founder of The Life Coach School

“At the very best of times, the mother-daughter relationship is one of complexity. An unloved Daughter - a Daughter that is abandoned emotionally - experiences a relationship peppered with harsh behavioral minefields: enmeshment, confusion, grief, fear, anger, shame...behaviors that can take control, making it not the reality she wants, but the reality she thinks she has to live. The Peaceful Daughter's Guide shows a way to navigate this difficult minefield and how to come back on the other side to create the reality you want. This is not a book that's filled with behavioral data and no support. It is a first-hand account of someone who has walked the complicated walk of the Unloved Daughter and who has found a better way. It offers exercises to help bring more clarity (and understanding) to this relationship. It is obvious that Karen's experience is what drove her to create this guide. And it is what makes it such a sincere, loving and inspirational resource for helping others.”
~ Jo Pillmore, Mindset Coach

“A valuable read for anyone who has or had "mother problems." And there's a bonus: The strategies she suggests could be helpful in any close relationship in your life.”
~ Marsha Hudnall, MS, RDN, CD, President & Co-Owner, Green Mountain at Fox Run

“An empowering book that offers clarity and validation as well as strategies for freeing yourself from the control of an unhealthy mother relationship.” ~ Susan Forward Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents and Mothers who Can't Love

“Karen C.L. Anderson brings daughters from suffering a difficult mother/motherhood relationship to surviving and thriving with her honesty, humor, and pragmatic guidance.” ~ Ann Imig, Founder LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER

Table of Contents

Foreword 11

Chapter 1 Lineage 15

Chapter 2 A Note to Daughters…and Their Mothers 17

Chapter 3 Why I Do This, Plus FAQs and an invitation 19

Chapter 4 Living in Either/Or Land 29

Chapter 5 Awakening 35

Chapter 6 "So, Tell Me about Your Relationship with Your Mother." 45

Chapter 7 What's Your Story? 49

Chapter 8 You Are a Courageous, Conscious Creator 59

Chapter 9 But What About the Anger/Sadness/Grief/Bitterness/Guilt I Still Feel? 63

Chapter 10 Triggers and Buttons and Thorns, Oh My! 75

Chapter 11 Deactivate Your Triggers, Unbutton Your Buttons, and Pluck Out Those Thorns 81

Chapter 12 A Quick Note about Our Little-Girl Brains 91

Chapter 13 Do No Harm, but Take No Bull: How to Establish, Articulate and Maintain Impeccable Boundaries 95

Chapter 14 Boundaries with Myse-helf 109

Chapter 15 "But She Manipulates Me into Not Having-or Ignoring-My Boundaries" 113

Chapter 16 Guilt, Anxiety, and Fear Are Not Inevitable When It Comes to Setting Boundaries 117

Chapter 17 But Mothers Aren't Supposed to… 121

Chapter 18 The Myth of the Unloved Daughter 127

Chapter 19 Taking Yourself onto Your Own Lap (a.k.a Re-Mothering) 133

Chapter 20 Re-Mothering in the Face of Big Emotions (Like Shame) 143

Chapter 21 A Radical Way to Banish Shame from Your Life 147

Chapter 22 When You Decide to Change 153

Chapter 23 Choosing Unconditional Love 157

Chapter 24 What's on the Other Side of the Struggle? 161

Chapter 25 Dear Mothers of Women Who Are Reading This Book 167

Chapter 26 Q&A With Karen 171

Chapter 27 How Does This Book End? 187

Recommended Resources 193

Acknowledgements 197

About the Author 198

Thank You 199