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

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According to LePera, doing the ‘work’ means taking our thoughts off autopilot and observing them for what they are.

Furthermore, as your parents get older, they may continue to mock and invalidate your feelings, discount your reality, and try to restrict and diminish your freedom of thinking and sense of emotional autonomy. When Janice got angry and confronted her mom, she was told that she was overreacting and that her mom could do whatever she wanted since the house was hers. This is easier said than done, since maintaining objectivity when such strong emotions are involved is hard.This book helped me understand not only how her brain works more, but it was incre validating for me to know I'm not crazy. Recovering from the cycle of narcissistic abuse can be hard work, but the books below are a good place to start.

You’ll learn more about how they experience the world and how to anticipate or avoid certain behaviors. For someone who had been invalidated at every turn, learning to validate my child’s experience and emotions (and by extension, my own), was incredibly powerful, and my son’s response to being validated proved without a shadow of a doubt that this book was on the right right: he became calm very quickly each time.If you don’t become mentally and emotionally free, your mother will keep living in your head and affecting your life, even after she’s gone.

Having done my own recovery work from my distorted maternal legacy, I can say that I've been there and I can help you change yours too. She was able to give me her blessing, however, and I think it is because she was trying to understand that this is not a book about blame, but a book about healing. I'm also grateful for understanding my role as a life-long scapegoat and have gathered immense strength and clarity from it.

Author Theresa Jackson covers the span of the narcissistic scale or spectrum, covering things like narcissistic gaslighting, manipulation, and verbal abuse. illuminates a very common and unnamed wound -- the wound that results from growing up with a narcissistic mother.

My husband bought this book, I would personally never have chosen this actual text because it is self-published on a popular therapy topic without footnotes or references. My mother which whom I love dearly has made me feel many of these traits due to what she must have experienced in her own life . She is a leading authority on narcissism and author of several books including Will I Ever Be Good Enough? I recommend this for anyone who feels unheard and in a cyclical dynamic with your mother or any narcissistic person in their life.I don't personally know any men who have been through this, but I know female clients and friends who have experienced this. Or your endlessly needy mom guilt-trips you into running all her errands because she’s desperate to keep you tethered to her. If you're willing to start putting your own needs first, clear out the clutter of self-doubt, and move past the fear of judgment and punishment instilled in you by emotionally immature parents, this book can help you find the freedom to finally live your life your way.