The first mother-daughter book for mothers, featuring a new Afterword and a Reading Group Discussion Guide ̧ Do you long for a better relationship with your daughter? ̧ Do you occasionally feel as though you have failed as a mother? ̧ Do you blame yourself because your relationship with your daughter is strained, faltering, or nonexistent? ̧ Do you feel that the relationship is unchangeable and that there is no chance that it could become a nurturing and deeply satisfying friendship? Dr. Charney Herst knows that there is always more than one side to a story, and in her book, For Mothers of Difficult Daughters, she uses her twenty-five years of experience as counselor and group therapist to provide mothers with solutions that work. In the book she first helps you understand your particular relationship with your grown daughter--untangling the complex web of personal history and intense emotion inherent in any mother-daughter relationship. Then she describes practical, successful, mother-tested steps you can take to repair this all-important bond.
In this practical book, Dr. Herst helps mothers untangle the web of personal history and intense emotion inherent in their relationships with their daughters and take the lead in re-pairing this all-important bond.
Do you long for a better relationship with your daughter?
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Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.
The author of the international bestseller The Peaceful Daughter’s Guide to Separating from a Difficult Mother offers new practical wisdom in this journal.
In the end this book celebrates the great resilience of sons and daughters of difficult mothers as well as acknowledging their special challenges.
Riveting and compassionate, this landmark book will give daughters the emotional support and tools they need to reclaim their confidence and self-respect so that the emotional destructiveness they grew up with does not constitute a legacy ...
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Presents advice for cultivating a harmonious relationships with one's daughter or daughter-in-law, describes principles of communication focused on building an adult friendship, and includes insight from a daughter's perspective.