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Our Mothers, Ourselves
- How Understanding Your Mother's Influence Can Set You on a Path to a Better Life
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Parenting & Families
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Summary
In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth.
No one has influenced the person you are today like your mother. The way she handled your needs as a child has shaped your worldview, your relationships, your marriage, your career, your self-image - your life. Our Mothers, Ourselves can help you identify areas that need reshaping, to make positive choices for personal change, and to establish a mature relationship with Mom today.
- The Phantom Mom
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This book was previously titled The Mom Factor.
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- M. Clark
- 24-11-20
Excellent resource
This is a very potent dive into the problems that occur in the mothering relationship and, most importantly, how to resolve them. I will listen to this multiple times.