You Are Not Your Mother, Karen C. L. Anderson
You Are Not Your Mother, Karen C. L. Anderson
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You Are Not Your Mother
Releasing Generational Trauma and Shame

Author: Karen C. L. Anderson

Narrator: Alex Picard

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/22/2023

Synopsis

What is your relationship to shame? How can you overcome it and live an intentional life of vulnerability? You Are Not Your Mother guides listeners on how to see shame, and live separately from it.

Explore your personal roots to shame with an expert. As a top authority on recovering from growing up in toxic families, Karen C. L. Anderson walks you through her shame story, her relationship with her narcissistic mother, and the simple practices she has developed to alleviate guilt from unhealthy relationships. Author of bestselling Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters with over 150,000 copies sold, Karen offers tools to process, understand, and move beyond childhood trauma so you can not only survive, but thrive.

You'll find: Karen's story on dealing with a narcissistic mother and how she overcame her shame; journal prompts, mind-body practices, and simple exercises to release shame and toxic habits; and a guide on how to finally identify shame, and how to embrace living free from it.

If you enjoy therapy books and content on emotion management, then this book is for you! If you liked I'm Glad My Mom Died, Mother Hunger, or Uprooting Shame And Guilt, you'll love You Are Not Your Mother.

About Karen C. L. Anderson

Karen C. L. Anderson is an author, storyteller, and master-certified life coach who works adult daughters to create safety, intentional identity, and healthy boundaries so they can take care of themselves in the relationship they have with their mothers.

She holds an advanced certification in feminist coaching, a master life coach certification from the Life Coach School, is a dare to lead trained professional, a healthy boundaries for kind people coach and facilitator, and is an emotional freedom techniques practitioner (EFT training for trauma, Levels I + II).

Her books include: You Are Not Your Mother: Releasing Generational Trauma & Shame; The Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship Journal; Overcoming Creative Anxiety: Journal Prompts & Practices; and Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on October 14, 2024

The first chapter of the book lists abuse that the author experienced, in a format like poetry, and since the explanation for this came later in the book, I thought that the whole book would be like that. I found it very confusing, and I feel like it affected the way that I accessed the rest of the......more

Goodreads review by Jobee on December 17, 2024

I didn’t love this, I listened to it though and I think that’s why.......more

Goodreads review by Tracey on September 08, 2023

I don't know if anyone reaches adulthood completely shame free. But if you're like me (and Karen), and you grew up in a home with narcissistic abuse and neglect, shame in our adult life is on overdrive. Sometimes, we can block out experiences that happened to us, the repeated messages we received fr......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on May 03, 2024

Anderson’s recollection is refreshing because it is all about her. In Woelynn’s It Didn’t Start With You, demands empathy for your parents in order to heal and recover from your shame, and in Martin’s How not to Kill Yourself, in the end (and intertwined with admittedly a lot of good advise) he cite......more

Goodreads review by Megan on October 20, 2024

Easy read. I felt very seen and validated and inspired. It didn’t start with us. It started with our mothers or even their mothers. It started long ago. But it doesn’t have to continue.......more

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