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

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Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. 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. Not only does this book help readers recognize the characteristics of a narcissist in business, management, and politics, it also offers a run-down on specific coping skills.

If your mom’s a narcissist, you’ve no doubt spent the majority of your life believing that you’re her biggest problem. Topics include healing specific techniques (like how to defuse arguments and explore vulnerability), real-world stories from survivors, and informative sections aligned with the DSM-5.It’s difficult to share your experience because narcissists, especially narcissistic mothers, can be very good at creating the perfect image of their family for outsiders.

You’ll also find tons of practical tips to help you build healthy, trusting relationships; stop apologizing for the failures of others; and start trusting your own good judgment.

Overall, How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self is a detailed look at holistic approach to mental health, focusing on what an individual can do to improve their relationship with past trauma and re-pattern their life. Clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss expertly shows readers how to handle someone who can’t understand the give-and-take of a healthy relationship. Al Bernstein excels at showing readers different methods of identifying and distinguishing between them.

However, the pain and emotional scars of a narcissistic childhood are hard to recover from, but a great leap towards the direction of recovery means revisiting those tough memories of growing up and enduring the wrath of your narcissistic mother. Whether the kids are currently dealing with the NPD mom, she was recently diagnosed or they are no longer in contact, this book is an easy read and it’s redundancies are helpful to help kids with loyalty binds make sense of the abuse they have endured. Although it was originally written for psychologists, readers use words like “accessible” and “germaine” to describe its contents. Indeed, a chapter is devoted to setting boundaries and separating yourself from people and places that emotionally disturb you, while also acknowledging that individuals who are discriminated against may not have this luxury. I love that it shows how you think and feel, explains the cause and has someone who has experienced something that has caused what you think and feel and then explains solutions.The author discusses the different forms of covert or overt manipulation used by toxic parents, as well as the physical and/or emotional scars caused not just by the offending parent, but also by apathy of non-offending parent. It presents a new therapeutic model for treating adults who suffered at the hands of emotional abusive or neglectful parents.