With Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful go through the devastating impact unloving moms have on their daughters-and provides clear, effective approaches for overcoming that painful legacy.

In more than 35 years being a therapist, Forward spent some time working with many women struggling to flee the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Put through many years of criticism, about Mothers Who Can’t Appreciate: A Healing Guideline for Daughters competition, role-reversal, smothering control, emotional neglect and abuse, these ladies are plagued by anxiety and unhappiness, relationship problems, lack of confidence and difficulties with trust. They question their worth, and even their ability to love.

Forward examines the Narcissistic Mother, the Competitive Mother, the Overly Enmeshed mom, the Control Freak, Moms who want Mothering, and mothers who misuse or neglect to protect their daughters from misuse.

Filled with compelling case histories, Mothers Who Can’t Love outlines the self-help techniques Forward is rolling out to transform the lives of her clients, displaying women how exactly to overcome the suffering of childhood and how to act within their own needs.

Warm and compassionate, Mothers Who Can’t Love gives daughters the emotional support and tools they need to heal themselves and rebuild their self-confidence and self-respect.