Suggested Reading List
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Overcoming the Mother Wound: A Transformative Journey of Healing and Empowerment
This book is your compassionate guide in the profound journey of self-discovery and healing. Follow a well-tested method that delicately navigates the depths of your emotions, experiences, and beliefs with empathy and support.
Through carefully designed exercises and prompts, you'll embark on a unique journey to uncover and appreciate parts of yourself that may have remained unexplored.
Central to this journey is using art and creative prompts as tools for self-knowledge and discovery. Whether you are an artist or enjoy artistry, this book invites you to connect with the transmutative forces of creativity for self-expression and healing.
Filled with practical and embodied practices, this book provides a versatile toolkit for insights, exercises, and support as you navigate the intricate terrain of the Mother Wound.
These practices can be done on your own, with the guidance of a therapist or coach, or as a supplement to the online Overcoming the Mother Wound eCourse and Membership Community.
The Drama of the Gifted Child
This book, first published in 1997, looks at causes, types, and preventions of childhood trauma. The Gift, of course, is surviving the abuse.
The Verbally Abusive Relationship
Verbal abuse is not always obvious, but it is felt. This book’s focus is on helping you notice when verbal abuse occurs, what it represents and how it shows up in your relationships.
What Happened To You?
This book is
non-blaming,
non-shaming, and packed with information on what we may have missed and what we need as human beings to heal.
What My Bones Know
This is a memoir written by a survivor of emotional and physical abuse, who also happens to be a journalist. The author brings her first hand experience and her research on trauma and recovery in this gripping, informative book.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Written by a clinical psychologist this book unveils the effects of being parented by parents that needed parenting. The book looks at what happened to the child, and how the adult child can heal from the pain, neglect, and confusion of this experience.
Daughter Detox
This author unpacks her research about daughters who have been harmed in their relationship with their mothers. The book is structured is a self-help format but has many useful information and strategies on ways to heal.
Discovering the Inner Mother
This powerful self-help book supports female empowerment and growth. Written in 2020 the author points out that everyone has a mother wound, and shares ideas of how to work with it.
Mother Hunger
The intention of this book is to help women break the cycle of negative patterns of behavior. While offering plenty of case vignettes, tools, and psychoeducation the author traces the cycle back to the earliest relationship, the mother. The book includes self-help exercises of support.
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?
This engaging book focuses on the daughter’s experience of an abusive, absent, self-involved mother and how that plays out in their adult lives. The author includes helpful case vignettes from her own therapy practice, as well as guidance for the path to recovery.
Stop Walking on Egshells
Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors.
Necessary Losses
This book addresses grief. According to the author we must grieve in order to gain a truer sense of who we are in the world. Grieving includes loss of our mother’s protection, our younger selves, and some of our dreams.
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