12 Top health books like Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide by Brenda Stephens

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Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

By: Brenda Stephens

4.18

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

Validation, compassion, and guidance for relationships with narcissistic mothers As the daughter o…

If you liked the health plot in Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide by Brenda Stephens , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting

By: John M. Gottman , Joan DeClaire

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is John Gottman’s groundbreaking guide to teaching childre… read more

Similar categories in John M. Gottman's Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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2. 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

Similar categories in Susan Forward's Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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3. 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

Similar categories in Randi Kreger's Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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4. Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse

By: Shannon Thomas

4.37

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Within every community, toxic people can be found hiding in families, couples, companies, and place… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Thomas's Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Mindfulness for Beginners

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.50

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? Acco… read more

Similar categories in Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness for Beginners book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook

6. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

7. 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

Similar categories in Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

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8. 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

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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9. A Tale of Love and Darkness

By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more

Similar categories in Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • nonfiction
"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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10. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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11. The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

By: Shahida Arabi

3.90

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Reclaim your power from narcissists, manipulators, and other toxic people. If you're a highly sensi… read more

Similar categories in Shahida Arabi's The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is possible to set boundaries provided that you prioritize your own self-care. To protect ourselves in their presence, we first have to understand the way they think and manipulate. This will give…"

-Shahida Arabi, The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

"Keep interactions as short as possible; you can be cordial, but do not engage. Narcissists are master provocateurs who will subject you to dizzying diversion tactics to make you feel off-center and o…"

-Shahida Arabi, The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

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12. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more

Similar categories in Nedra Glover Tawwab's Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Visit the past, but don't stay there."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

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13. 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

Similar categories in Sherrie Campbell's Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

By: Danu Morrigan

4.01

Format: 181 pages, ebook

Do you find yourself feeling emotionally bruised, upset, and confused after being in contact with y… read more

Similar categories in Danu Morrigan's You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"To deny someone's feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality."

-Danu Morrigan, You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

"When you‟re taught from birth that you don‟t matter in any way, that your wants and even needs are irrelevant, then of course you‟ll struggle to value yourself."

-Danu Morrigan, You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

"Try to come to a place where you accept your own imperfections. Where it's okay to be less than perfect. Because you are less than perfect; it‟s the human condition. And that's okay!"

-Danu Morrigan, You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

"Many [Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers] DONMs have a deeply buried sense that we are inherently flawed. That there is something twisted and evil and nasty and noxious and poisonous about us, and tha…"

-Danu Morrigan, You're Not Crazy—It's Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

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15. Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self & Live with Confidence

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

3.81

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

From the author of the self-help hit, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, this essentia… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self & Live with Confidence book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Another practice that has given healthy pride a bad name is excessive praise for the smallest childhood success, from earning tokens in the classroom to the trophy glut at Little League. Many adults …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self & Live with Confidence

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16. 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

Similar categories in Ramani Durvasula's It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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17. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

Similar categories in Jen Gunter's The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • audiobook
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free by Terri Cole

18. Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free

By: Terri Cole

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Break Free From Over-Functioning, Over-Delivering, People-Pleasing, and Ignoring Your Own Needs So … read more

Similar categories in Terri Cole's Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You will never win with a Boundary Destroyer. Even if you have the best bullet-pointed argument in the world, the Boundary Destroyer is not going to acknowledge your truth. Convincing them of your pe…"

-Terri Cole, Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free

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19. Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role

By: Rebecca C. Mandeville

4.32

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Were you bullied or rejected by a parent, sibling, or other relative growing up? Have you ever been… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca C. Mandeville's Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"While disagreements and interpersonal conflicts are common in even the healthiest of family systems, family scapegoating goes far beyond this, making recovering from its impact and effects difficult.…"

-Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role

"Adult survivors of family scapegoating abuse have historically been diagnosed with one or more mental health conditions that ignore the trauma symptoms they are regularly experiencing. Rarely will th…"

-Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role

"It was not until I did my family genogram as part of my Masters in Counseling Psychology training that I learned of some of the devastating, traumatic events that had impacted my family-of-origin. Ma…"

-Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role

"Recovering from family scapegoating requires recognizing that being the ‘identified patient’ is symptomatic of generations of systemic dysfunction within one’s family, fueled by unrecognized anxiety …"

-Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role

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20. Narcissistic Mothers: How to Handle a Narcissistic Parent and Recover from CPTSD

By: Caroline Foster

4.21

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Fully Revised and Updated Edition Are you an adult child of a narcissistic mother? Do you suspect … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Foster's Narcissistic Mothers: How to Handle a Narcissistic Parent and Recover from CPTSD book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

By: Brenda Stephens

4.18

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

Validation, compassion, and guidance for relationships with narcissistic mothers As the daughter o… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide book and Brenda Stephens's Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

14 Top audiobook books like Recovering from Narcissistic Mothers: A Daughter's Guide by Brenda Stephens

Transform Your Habits

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse

Shannon Thomas

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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16 best-selling audiobook books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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