
If you’ve ever been told “but she’s your mom,” this is for you.
But She’s Your Mom was written for daughters and sons who have spent years trying to understand a relationship that never quite made sense.
Maybe you’ve questioned whether you’re too sensitive. Felt guilty for setting boundaries. Or wondered why you keep ending up in the same painful cycle.
I know that confusion because I lived it too.
I spent most of my life trying to understand the dynamic in my own family. For years, I questioned what I experienced, minimized things that hurt me, and tried to understand why the relationship with my own mother left me feeling so confused, guilty, and constantly questioning myself.
Learning to recognize the patterns changed the way I saw my own experience.
That’s why I wrote this book. I wanted those of us who have lived this to have a place where we feel seen, understood, and a little less alone in what we experienced.
Inside, you’ll understand:
The patterns of control, guilt, manipulation, and emotional abuse that can show up with a narcissistic or emotionally manipulative mother
Why you may have learned to question yourself, minimize what happened, or feel responsible for your mother’s emotions
Why boundaries can bring up so much guilt and discomfort
How money, gifts, help, and generosity can sometimes be used as control
Why hope can keep you returning to the same cycle, even when you know the relationship is hurting you
What staying in contact, low contact, or no contact can actually feel like
The grief that can come with accepting the relationship for what it is
Sometimes you’ve lived inside something for so long that you don’t realize how much of it you’ve learned to accept as normal.
Book One (But She's Your Mom) is about seeing the patterns more clearly, putting words to what you’ve experienced, and beginning to trust your own reality again.
You are not too sensitive. You are not imagining it.
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