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

by Peg Streep

This latest volume by bestselling author Peg Streep picks up where her acclaimed book Daughter 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 & 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 •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 & 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.

Genres: Self Help

Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2019

Reviews

[MountainAshleah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the companion book to Daughter Detox: Recovering from An Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your Life. This book really helped me when, 17 years after cutting off the Queen of Toxicity, she returned with a vengeance, sending texts and threats so creepy and horrendous I had to forward them to others. In these 100+ questions, Streep provides very hard-hitting information I needed to hear but wasn't able to (the work hadn't been published) all those years ago--I was fortunate enough to discover and rapidly accept my mother simply didn't just not love or even like me, she downright hated me and blamed me for "ruining her life" (i.e., she married my father and became a mother of three). I listened to this book on audio as a much-needed affirmation of cutting her off--and staying cut off--despite the family pressure to resume communications (even as at least two extended family members acknowledged they were also aware of her violence and rage--she has actually had a restraining order against her from an outsider). Streep's experience with her mother parallels mine in many ways, and I appreciate Streep's straightforward analysis and advice--especially when she's acknowledging the shame and cultural stigma of breaking the Motherhood Myth--that all mothers love their children and they do so unconditionally. No, all mothers do not love their children, and some even hate them. I wish these Daughter Detox books had been available 40 years ago. But at least they are now. This is an important message that needs to be in circulation. Highly recommended.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 stars. I found much of this book to be healing and encouraging, but I also felt this book to be the most healing and encouraging ... to the author. I wish her well.

[Alina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Не понравилось. Это та же книга "Нелюбимая дочь", написанная под другим углом. Плюс, заявленная тема "Вопросы и ответы", написана очень концептулаьно и по консультантски, не давая конкретных ответов на вопросы, а задавая дополнительные вопросы читателю для саморефлексии. Половину книги просто пролистывала

[Jennifer Kwok · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can’t say if it taught anything about healing. I can only say this series of books gave a voice and empowerment to daughters who had been dismissed. And this alone is very much needed.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very helpful book. I learned so much.