When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Adult Children
By: Daniel S. Lobel
4.19
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Caring for yourself and your relationship with your mom who has BPD. Growing up with a mom who has…
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1. Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
By: Susan Forward , Donna Frazier
4.23
Format: 304 pages, ebook
With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the sma… read more
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- psychology
- self help
"Criticism is the fountainhead of control."-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
"Charlene had controlled Karen for so long, she had every reason to believe her daughter would buckle, that she'd never have to follow through on her threats."-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
"...many daughters may never have given themselves permission to even 'consider' changing the relationship with their mothers, because they didn't think they had the right to do it."-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
"The healing process kicks into gear with with the words "This is what you did to me." That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a …"-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
2. Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
By: Kimberlee Roth , Freda B. Friedman , Randi Kreger
4.26
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide for adult children of parents with bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection."-Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
"It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want."-Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
"Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny."-Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
"Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways …"-Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
3. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
By: Mark Wolynn
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
4. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
By: Elizabeth Pantley , William Sears
3.49
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debat… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
5. Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
By: Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason
4.01
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder i… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over t…"-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
"Children who experience abuse also learn to deny pain and chaos or accept them as normal and proper. They learn that their feelings were wrong or didn't matter. They learn to focus on immediate survi…"-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
6. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
By: James W. Pennebaker
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
7. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
By: Alice Miller , None
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
8. The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
By: Charlaine Harris
3.50
Format: None pages,
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9. The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
By: Jo Robinson , Patricia Love
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful eff… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
10. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
By: Adam Alter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addi… read more
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11. The Devil's Highway: A True Story
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, i… read more
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12. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
By: Karyl McBride
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-in… read more
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13. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
By: Pete Walker
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more
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14. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
15. Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship
By: None
3.79
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her mood… read more
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16. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: None
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more
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17. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
By: David McCullough
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership … read more
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18. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
By: Terrence Real
3.62
Format: 57 pages,
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more
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19. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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20. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
21. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
By: Kelly McDaniel
4.15
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more
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- psychology
- self help
22. It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life
By: Tom Rath
4.01
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a moving memoir and inspiring call t… read more
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- psychology
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"When you move past self, life is simpler and less stressful."-Tom Rath, It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life
"Time is more valuable when you can see your mortality on the horizon."-Tom Rath, It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life
"When you consider how short life can be, you create more meaning in the world."-Tom Rath, It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life
"In my own experience, orienting my efforts to where I could make the greatest contributions, both during and beyond my lifetime, helped me to push through major challenges and made life far more mean…"-Tom Rath, It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life
23. Marilla of Green Gables
By: Sarah McCoy
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more
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"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables
24. Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
By: Sherrie Campbell
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and tow… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
25. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
By: Melody Beattie
4.13
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"We work it out, or live it out."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
26. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
By: Ramani Durvasula
4.58
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
27. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"It’s better to be smart than strong."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
28. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
29. ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain
By: Tracy Otsuka
4.13
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to em… read more
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- psychology
- self help
30. When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Adult Children
By: Daniel S. Lobel
4.19
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Caring for yourself and your relationship with your mom who has BPD. Growing up with a mom who has… read more
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- psychology
- self help
31. Narcissistic Mother A Survival Guide for Daughters: Recognize Borderline Personality Disorder Recover From Childhood Emotional Neglect, Overcome Narcissistic Abuse and Heal Your Inner Child.
By: Mia Warren
3.69
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
Why can't I be normal and happy like everyone else? Why do I always have problems? Why do I constan… read more
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