You love your mother, but she drives you crazy.
She controls, criticizes, and butts into your life constantly. Then when you try and set boundaries, the pushback and resulting guilt is so bad you tell yourself… it's just not worth it.
Katherine Fabrizio holds a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and has been a Licensed Psychotherapist for over 35 years. Dedicated to empowering women, one mother/daughter relationship at a time, she offers help to daughters of difficult mothers in her private practice and online at Daughtersrising.info. Katherine lives in Raleigh, N.C., where she raised her two daughters. She enjoys painting with her fingers, dancing suggestively to loud music, and delighting in her grandchildren without doing any of the work. She is the author of The Good Daughter Syndrome- Help For Empathic Daughters of Narcissistic, Borderline, or Difficult Mothers Trapped In The Role of The Good Daughter. .
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The Good Daughter Syndrome is a thorough, conversational self-help book about avoiding the unconscious traps that mothers set up when they see their daughters as reflections of themselves. Clarion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written guide for daughters who want to stay good, just change!
G. D. Long
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2023
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This book and Katherine’s keen insights have changed my perspective exponentially! If you are troubled by any aspect of your relationship with your mother and you want to take responsibility for how you deal with it and what you can do to change it, and YOUR perspective, this book is a must read. I have been using many of the tools Katherine presents, and they work. A relationship is created by interactions and if we take responsibility for our contributions to those interactions while at the same time trying to understand the person with whom we are interacting, we can take ownership of our outcomes and avoid putting ourselves in situations where we know those outcomes will bring out the worst in us. This makes it sound very simple, which it is not, but if you can do the work and break it down for yourself, the way Katherine does, you will find yourself and find, at the same time, a new kind of empathy for your mother. . . and maybe many others too!
5.0 out of 5 stars review
Gabriel A.