Being raised by a narcissistic mother might be one of the most painful and confusing experience a daughter can have. In this book, we’ll touch on the different ways narcissism presents, but mostly we’ll be focusing on you and your recovery. I hope you’ll join me on this journey of self-discovery and empowerment. You deserve to feel whole, alive, and authentic in this lifetime and it is my sincerest hope that you begin to integrate that awareness into your mind and body.
A lot of adult daughters grow up to feel like they don’t know who they are. They’ve spent their whole lives adapting who they are to meet the expectations of their mothers, which in a lot of cases lead to a double bind: Be the best, but not better than me; Lose weight, but not too much; Don’t reveal your feelings, yet don’t be a robot. And the list goes on.
When you have been impacted by maternal narcissism, you’ve essentially internalized a very toxic mother which becomes the way in which you treat yourself. Undoing this takes a willingness to see all the ways you’ve been impacted by your mother and a desire to undo the damage done by permitting yourself to update your belief system, allowing yourself to have access to what you feel and need, and no longer adhering to the toxic messages you took in.
The choice is yours: You no longer have to feel under the control of your narcissistic mother. You are in a different time and place as an adult and can offer yourself something new: A place to belong within yourself. I hope you’ll grant yourself this wonderful opportunity to level up into your authenticity.
