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

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As a therapist, I'm slightly annoyed with the way the author generalizes how therapy focuses on the past and has a tendency to focus on parental relationships using the generic example, "tell me about your mother," outside of any context that is relevant to a therapy session.

This meant that she did not understand Sandeep’s desire to go to college or her fight for her independence. This book is about Anderson discovering and accepting the whole of who she is (separate from her mother), and—in relatable, real, funny, and compassionate prose—making her discoveries accessible to women struggling to redefine their own challenging relationships with their mothers.I grew up feeling denied of love not understanding my mother’s definition of love rested in providing basic needs and less an emotional or verbal expression of love, ie. Author of bestselling Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters with over 150,000 copies sold, Karen offers tools to process, understand and move beyond childhood trauma so you can not only survive, but thrive.

Rosjke Hasseldine is a mother-daughter relationship therapist, author of The Silent Female Scream and The Mother-Daughter Puzzle, and founder of Mother-Daughter Coaching International LLC ( motherdaughtercoach. This book had good tidbits of information which I noted, as well as journal prompts to work through, but her attitude throughout the book was frustrating. What she offers are practical tools, concepts and remothering yourself to get the support you need, even if it’s from yourself. Colleagues frequently tell me that they feel unprepared when it comes to working with mothers and daughters.Accept that and we can support each other’s weaknesses, gain from each other’s strengths, be sympathetic to each other’s needs and have fun with and learn from our differences.

Often the reason of the conflicts with parents is their inability to see farther than their education, a huge lack of curiosity, willfully resisting learning anything new. Alongside Sandeep’s increased understanding of her family’s sociocultural environment, I helped her increase her entitlement to speak her mind, reject unreasonable demands, and carve out her own life path.Her previous book, The Peaceful Daughter’s Guide to Separating From A Difficult Mother, is an international best seller, having sold well over 100,000 copies. Many clichés, but lack of clear or workable framework for tackling the problem it claims to address. This invaluable resource empowers you to personalize your path, offering daily meditations that address common challenges like loneliness, shame, and the quest for hope. A bunch of rambling about creating "boundaries" but presented in such a vague way as to be completely unhelpful. And there's a bonus: The strategies she suggests could be helpful in any close relationship in your life.