14 Best nonfiction books like Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration by Karen C.L. Anderson

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Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

By: Karen C.L. Anderson

3.58

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

“An empowering book . . . strategies for freeing yourself from the control of an unhealthy mother r…

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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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  • nonfiction
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"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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2. Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

By: Dodie Clark

4.67

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

When I feel like I'm going mad I write. A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health

3. Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens

By: Earl Hipp

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Proven, practical advice for teens on coping with stress, being assertive, taking risks, making dec… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

4. This Is Me Letting You Go

By: Heidi Priebe

3.86

Format: 262 pages,

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5. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

By: Robert D. Hare , Paul Babiak

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants some… read more

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6. 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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7. 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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  • relationships
  • self help
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  • mental health
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  • 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

8. All You Need to Know about the Music Business

By: Donald S. Passman , Randy Glass

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For fifteen years, "All You Need to Know About the Music Business" has been universally regarded as… read more

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9. Self-Esteem: A proven program of cognitive techniques for assessing, improving and maintaining your self-esteem

By: Matthew McKay , Patrick Fanning

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Self-esteem is essential for our survival. Without some measure of self-worth, life can be enormous… read more

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10. Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

From the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , this handbook offers essential,… read more

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  • relationships
  • self help
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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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11. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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12. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

By: Jill Twiss

4.64

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa Mike Pence, the former Vice President o… read more

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  • audiobook
"Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever."

-Jill Twiss, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

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13. 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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  • self help
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14. Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

By: Karen C.L. Anderson

3.58

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

“An empowering book . . . strategies for freeing yourself from the control of an unhealthy mother r… read more

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  • audiobook
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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

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"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. The Death of Us

By: Lori Rader-Day

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of Death at Greenway and The Lucky One comes a chilling suspense nove… read more

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Cover of My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage by Rose Brik

17. My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

By: Rose Brik

4.26

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

"My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage" is the raw and emotionally charged debut poetry collection by … read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • self help
"when your mother is your first love, you can search to the ends of the earth and never find any love comparable. when your mother is your first heartbreak, no love will ever fill the void of feeling …"

-Rose Brik, My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

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18. Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this important sequel to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson o… read more

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19. 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

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20. The Good Daughter Syndrome: Help For Empathic Daughters of Narcissistic, Borderline, or Difficult Mothers Trapped in the Role of the Good Daughter

By: Katherine Fabrizio

4.37

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

You love your mother, but she drives you crazy. She controls, criticizes, and butts into your life… read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal by Helen Villiers

21. You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

By: Helen Villiers

4.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from bei… read more

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7 Best relationships books like Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration by Karen C.L. Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

Susan Forward , Donna Frazier

4.23

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

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

Kelly McDaniel

4.15

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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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