Will I Ever Be Good Enough?

By Karyl McBride, PhD

Certification Test: $70   Book & Test: $94

7 CEs

The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever be Good Enough? provides the expert guidance you need in order to help others overcome this debilitating history and reclaim their lives.

Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist, Dr. Karyl McBride helps you recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.

An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life.

Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers often unreasonable expectations and whims.

As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage in frustration.

Herself a recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse is manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show how they can take back their lives and have the control they want.

Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to teach others how to:

1. Recognize their own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of their life.

2. Discover how they have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from their mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage.

3. Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim their life and enhance their sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from their mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. They will also learn how not to repeat their mother's mistakes with their own daughter.

7 CE Hours of credit.
Certification Test: $70
Book & Test: $94

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