The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal: A Guide For Revealing & Healing Toxic Generational Patterns (Companion Journal to Difficult Mothers Adult Daughters)

This journal is well set out and easy to find your way around. You can work on any section as thoughts and feelings come up, you do not necessarily have to do it in order. The difficult mother/daughter relationship is a difficult one to discuss, often a taboo subject. It's acceptable to joke about the mother in law relationship, but to mention that you don't get on with your own mother or that she is abusive etc is often a taboo subject.Karen confronts these difficult relationships, asking questions, giving helpful and practical advice/suggestions with courage, grace and kindness. Kindness to ourselves first then others. This book is a great guide in setting boundaries, helping the reader to ask herself difficult and deep questions about herself, coming with integrity as the author is so open about her own emotions and what has worked for her.Working through a chapter of this journal after a particularly difficult conversation with my mother, I felt my frustration lessen and a sense of peace as I took a deep breath and worked through some of the boundaries I could set in order to be kind to and protect myself from verbal abuse. Yes at age fifty five my mother can still trigger me. A journal to work though at my own pace, making small changes that make a difference to the way I react so that I can set & keep boundaries that enable me to respect myself in this challenging relationship with my mother.I would definitely recommend this book.

Karen Anderson addresses a painful, taboo and complicated subject with incredible clarity and insight. I found her first book on the subject to be my first revelation in learning to understand the patterns that often rule our relationships -- with mothers, but really, with anyone. This is part two of the revelation - a way to dive in on a new level - and I am grateful she wrote it. Anderson's work has given me a totally radical perspective and language on seeing patterns and setting boundaries in a new and peaceful way with everyone in my life -- friends, parents, bosses. Her writing is accessible and imbued with warmth and intelligence. She is a pioneer in the field of and I will be buying this book for all my friends who struggle in relationships.

Good Author very helpful with any M/D relationship who's in need of repairing.

As a clinician, it is especially powerful to have access to powerful tools that encourage action toward self-discovery that results in healing. Karen’s Journal is easy to follow, utilizes numerous resources and is filled with journal prompts to pick and choose from. There is no doubt that the author has done this work herself in order to come up with such effective inspiration.

Karen has written a compelling journal that helps a woman work through and understand one of the most important early relationships of every woman's life. It's separated into chapters which make it easy to take it slow and go deep, while feeling supported by Karen through the whole process. I recommend this book wholeheartedly!

As someone who benefited from “Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters,” the so-called companion book for this journal, I didn’t think twice when I bought this item. I wish I had. The preface of this journal was a very triggering description of a random “mother” on the internet accosting the author for not mentioning difficult daughters in her book about difficult mothers. The insensitive way this woman spoke to the author reminded me oh so much of my narcissist mother, the very woman I’m trying to use this journal to heal from. Everything about the preface was contradictory to the ideas presented in Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters, it was downright baffling. It seems like the author decided to take some sort of middle ground stance in an attempt to avoid any more abuse from online narcissists, to the detriment of previous readers. It seems like it might be a nice journal for mothers that blame their daughters for all of their problems though.

I bought this for a client of mine and she appeared to be very receptive and got a lot out of the journal.

This isn't what I thought it'd be.

This is a very wonderful supportive guide to helping daughters deal with their first relationship, their Mothers.

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I wish I had of got this book a long time ago.For me it asked questions and invited me to self reflect on issues which I had already done so in many ways.I think it is a good book for anyone who is trying to work out who they are and what their needs and values are and what boundaries they need to assert in life in order to have healthier relationship with themselves or others.This is work a lot of us need to do.

Lovely book, full of hope for difficult mother daughter relationships and something that I will definitely be recommending to clients