Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve Paperback – November 1, 2022

Helpful and good

This was a hard book because of just how accurate it was in describing our reality. I thought I would finish it quickly but had to read through it slowly and just process and even take breaks. This has been the most helpful book so far and has provided the clearest and fullest picture. If you are struggling as a daughter and have some clues as to what is the issue, read this book. It will answer so many questions and help you learn to begin to heal.

Hit close to home. I saw a lot of traits, behaviors, and scenarios that were very similar to the childhood I was raised in. I recommend this book to anyone who struggles with a narcissistic parent or a parent parent who demonstrates narcissistic type behaviors. Particularly daughters.

I've read nearly all the main book on narcissistic mothers and this one had some good points but I did not generally relate to most of it for some reason. The mothers I know are not this type of narcissist. The book I related to more was Narcissistic Mothers by Linda Hill so you may want to read that too.This book has some coping skills which are good. There is a section on boundaries. The part about whether your mother is a grandiose or vulnerable narcissist is helpful to figure out for further reading.So if your mother is/was more destructive this book may interest you. If your mother just brags and is annoying this book is far more complex and deals with much more damaging issues.~The Rebecca Review

Fantastic book. My inner child thanks you. We are finally free.

An insightful, well-written book about an important topic.

Might be a good book if you’re new to the topic, but overall it’s pretty bare-bones and seems like it’s trying to draw out the word count. For instance, there are 3 questions that are repeated throughout the book, sometimes within 2 pages of each other (“do you have any new insights about your mother? Do you have any new insights about yourself? What is your most important takeaway from this section?”). Honestly, the answer to these questions, for me, was usually no…A lot of the book was fluffed up with ACT interventions, which is not the subject matter. I suppose the author could make a case that that’s how she approaches healing from narcissistic mothers, but it’s not particularly useful for those of us that are already familiar with the exercises.Also, there are quite a few grammatical errors, typos, and sentences that don’t quite make sense. Not sure why the editing team didn’t catch those.

If you were raised by a narcissist mother, this book needs to be under your pillow. Because it can make you cry like a child. Don’t get me wrong - you really need this. In order to fix something, you need to admit and accept that something is wrong. And it’s not you. This book talks to you like a friend, a truthful and kind friend, that will tell you the truth that you need to know for only one purpose: healing. This is what this book is about, healing. I strongly recommend.