Susan Forward,Donna Frazier Glynn

Mothers Who Can't Love

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With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy.
In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering control, emotional neglect and abuse, these women are plagued by anxiety and depression, relationship problems, lack of confidence and difficulties with trust. They doubt their worth, and even their ability to love.
Forward examines the Narcissistic Mother, the Competitive Mother, the Overly Enmeshed mother, the Control Freak, Mothers who need Mothering, and mothers who abuse or fail to protect their daughters from abuse.
Filled with compelling case histories, Mothers Who Can’t Love outlines the self-help techniques Forward has developed to transform the lives of her clients, showing women how to overcome the pain of childhood and how to act in their own best interests.
Warm and compassionate, Mothers Who Can’t Love offers daughters the emotional support and tools they need to heal themselves and rebuild their confidence and self-respect.
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293 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • Conejo Literarioshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    Todo lo que escribe la Dra. Forward es precioso y sanador, este libro no es la excepción.

  • Lalashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

    Every mother and child should read this book and heal because no matter how we may try to deny it we've been hurt one way or the other.

Quotes

  • Ivonne Acostahas quoted2 years ago
    If you had an enmeshing mother, you may carry with you a great fear of abandonment or separation. You may be overly clingy with partners or your own children. You may hold yourself back because you lack confidence in your own abilities and resilience. And you may know precisely how to make your mother happy but struggle to satisfy your own soul.

    enmeshing mother

  • Ivonne Acostahas quoted2 years ago
    To an engulfing mother, love means:

    • You are my everything, and that makes you responsible for my happiness.

    • You can’t live without me, and I can’t live without you.

    • You are not allowed to have a life that doesn’t involve me.

    • You are not allowed to keep any secrets from me.

    • You must never love anyone more than you love me.

    • If you don’t want what I want, it means you don’t love me.

    • “No” means you don’t love me.
  • Ivonne Acostahas quoted2 years ago
    She holds out promise and praise that disappear when you prove to have a mind of your own. And she tries to mold you by making you feel guilty if you don’t go along with her wishes and needs.

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