The Way We Grow Pick

Why we love it:

A must-read therapy book for any daughter who has a mother that is critical or narcissistic, emotionally dependant, controlling or overbearing, neglectful, or who has betrayed or abused them. Even if you don’t view your mother’s behaviour as extreme, but your wellness, relationships, or life feel negatively impacted, this book can help you.

An extremely validating, compassionate, and eye-opening book, Mother’s Who Can’t Love not only helps you healthily process trauma from a mother, but it gives you practical, step-by-step tools, exercises, and processes to heal.

This book feels like going to therapy that works.

Best Parts:

• Real cases from the author’s clinical practice, including how each client applied tools shared in the book, and the ways it impacted their relationship with their mother—some outcomes surprising. You will see yourself in their stories.

• Communication techniques with difficult mothers, including tips on what to say and how to approach conversations.

• Healing tools and exercises that you can do on your own, or with a therapist. The tools and exercises feel like diving off the deep end of your healing journey, but in a liberating and effective way.