Summary of Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough?

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Get the Summary of Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: The first book for daughters who have suffered the abuse of narcissistic, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's health and hundreds of interviews with suffering daughters, Dr. Karyl McBride helps you recognize the widespread effects of this emotional abuse and create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.

Narcissistic mothers teach their daughters that love is not unconditional, that it is given only when they behave in accordance with maternal expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters have difficulty overcoming feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, emotional emptiness, and sadness. They may also have a fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy romantic relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism or to self-sabotage and frustration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638153351

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Karyl McBride’s

Will I Ever Be Good Enough?

Healing the Daughters of

Narcissistic Mothers

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In Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers (2009), Karyl McBride uses her extensive experience as a family therapist to offer a guide to recovery for adult daughters of narcissistic mothers. The program is designed to help these women overcome a vicious cycle of dysfunctional parenting patterns, banish the haunting emptiness that results from feeling unlovable, and quell anxiety resulting from feeling they were never good enough for their mothers.

Narcissism is destructive to the family structure, particularly children. In a healthy family dynamic, the parents take care of the children. Narcissistic parents, on the contrary, expect their children to react to their needs. This creates a dysfunctional dynamic characterized by role reversals. Narcissistic