This latest volume by bestselling author Peg Streep picks up where her acclaimed book Daughter Detox: Recovering from an Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your Life leaves off with 110 answers—all of them founded in science or expert advice—to the most pressing and common questions daughters on the road to recovery from childhood experiences ask. A unique and valuable tool, the Question &amp; Answer Book is divided into eleven focused chapters, each with its own introduction that establishes the context and illuminates why these questions are important. The book covers all the areas of concern such as your recognition of how you’ve been wounded; the roles your father and siblings played and how they influenced you; the difficulty of managing your adult relationship to your mother; getting a handle on how your behaviors were shaped and how to change them; the problem of taking charge of your emotions and thoughts; the real issues pertaining to friendship and intimacy; mapping out how to care for yourself now and in the future; and, finally, learning to thrive as you move forward.An indispensable addition to your tool kit of healing, this book will help you arrive at new answers to the questions and thoughts that keep you up in the middle of the night and make you wonder whether it’s really all in your head; that’s why this book will be a godsend to many, a resource to turn to again and again as you walk the long path of recovering and reclaiming yourself. Among the many questions asked and answered are:•Who might I have been if I’d had a loving mother?•Was I brainwashed to think my family was normal?•Does the pain of being unloved by your mother ever go away?•Are there ways to become more self-confident?•Why do I keep picking the wrong guys? Am I a magnet for controllers and narcissists?•Is it normal to start seeing toxic patterns in your other relationships after your recognition of your maternal one?•What kind of healing is possible?•How do I answer people who tell me to move on or tell me it couldn’t have been so bad because I turned out fine?Readers didn’t just ask for The Daughter Detox Question &amp; Answer Book but submitted many of the questions, and Peg Streep has delivered over 280 pages packed with the information and reassurance, strategies and wisdom, and 110 answers that will help you heal and keep you growing.

The Daughter Detox Question & Answer Book: A GPS for Navigating Your Way Out of a Toxic Childhood

Parenting & Relationships

STREEP, PEG

Family Relationships

Île D’Éspoir Press

A companion volume to the well-received Daughter Detox: Recovering from an Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your life, this 200-page book will support your efforts at healing and recovery through unique and specially crafted exercises and prompted journal pages designed to clarify your thinking and enable you to see how your childhood experiences affect you in the here and now. The Daughter Detox Guided Journal and Workbook will permit you to explore your thoughts and feelings without feeling the pressure that a traditional journal with its blank pages often induces. The Guided Journal and Workbook follows the same seven stages of healing as Daughter Detox but in a much more active and participatory manner; this is a book in which reading is less important than activity. In each of the sections of the Workbook—DISCOVER, DISCERN, DISTINGUISH, DISARM, RECLAIM, REDIRECT, RECOVER—you will encounter a progressive series of exercises, each of which will push you closer to understanding by making the unconscious conscious and motivate you to start changing the behaviors that are getting in the way of your happiness and fulfillment. Among the skills the exercises and journal entries are meant to bolster and grow are: • Seeing yourself with clarity, and not as others have defined you • Listening and paying attention to your inner thoughts • Strengthening and expanding your emotional intelligence • Becoming better at articulating your needs in a relationship • Choosing relationships that work for you and enrich your life • Using visualization to calm yourself in times of stress • Getting in touch with the signals your body is sending you • Curbing your reactivity and managing your emotions productively

The Daughter Detox Guided Journal and Workbook: A 7-Stage Process To Help Recover from an Unloving Mother and Reclaim Your Self-Esteem

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

A self-help book based in science, the result of more than a decade of research, Daughter Detox offers the daughters of unloving mothers vital information, guidance, and real strategies for healing from childhood experiences, and building genuine self-esteem. Writer Peg Streep lays out seven distinct but interconnected stages on the path to reclaim your life from the effects of a toxic childhood: DISCOVERY, DISCERNMENT, DISTNGUISH, DISARM, RECLAIM, REDIRECT, and RECOVER. Each step is clearly explained, and richly detailed with the stories of other women, approaches drawn from psychology and other disciplines, and unique exercises. The book will help the reader tackle her own self-doubt and become consciously aware of how her mother’s treatment continues to shape her behavior, even today. The message of the book is direct: What you experienced in childhood need not continue to hold you back in life. What was learned can be unlearned with effort. The book begins with DISCOVERY, opening up the reader’s understanding of how she has been wounded and influenced by her mother’s treatment. Recognizing the eight toxic maternal behaviors—dismissive, controlling, emotionally unavailable, unreliable, self-involved or narcissistic, combative, enmeshed, or role-reversed—lays the foundation for the daughter’s awareness of how her way of looking at the world, connecting to others, and ability to manage stress were affected. DISCERNMENT delves into the patterns of relationship in her family of origin and how they played a part in her development, and then shifts to looking closely at how the daughter adapted to her treatment, either silencing or losing her true self in the process. Next up is DISTINGUISH, seeing how the behavioral patterns we learned in childhood animate all of our relationships in the present with lovers and spouses, relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. The act of distinguishing allows us to see why so many of us end up in unsatisfying relationships, chose the wrong partners, or are unable to develop close friendships. Active recovery begins with DISARM as the daughter learns how to disconnect unconscious patterns of reaction and behavior and substitute actions that will foster the growth of self-esteem. Understanding the triggers that set us off, the cues that put us on the defensive, and the default positions of blaming ourselves and making excuses for other people’s toxic behavior are addressed, as are unhealthy behaviors such as rumination, rejection sensitivity, and more. RECLAIM is the stage at which the reader begins to actively make new choices, preparing herself so that she can live the life she desires by seeing herself as having agency and being empowered. Making new choices and figuring out how to manage her relationship to her unloving or toxic mother is the focus of REDIRECT. There are stories to inspire and challenge your thinking, exercises that show you how to swap out self-criticism for self-compassion, guidance on how to use journaling as a tool of self-discovery and growth, and advice on goal setting. Finally, RECOVER challenges the reader to come up with a new definition of what it means to heal, suggests tools to overcome the obstacles she places in her own way, and strategies to become the best, most authentic version of herself.

Daughter Detox: Recovering from An Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your Life

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