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Thoughtful and an excellent premise, but I needed more guidance to apply it to myself.

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HEALING FROM A NARCISSISTIC IMMATURE MOTHER. The power of letting go.

Studies have proven that expressing bitter or angry thoughts and feelings can help relieve you of all the pain and grudges that fester inside you and cause nothing but harm. Releasing all anger out can save your mental health and prevent premature death.

1) Do painful memories from your childhood still affect you? Are you tired of feeling stuck in the past? The more you try to avoid these feelings, the more they plague you.

3) Do you want to overcome the hurt you faced from your abusive mother finally?

4) Everyone wants to move forward with their lives and forget past pain. Because, unconsciously, the brain thinks it is protecting you from all the danger and anxiety you faced in your childhood.

If you don’t do anything to repair the wounds inside you, moving forward and living a life of peace and joy can be challenging.

Fortunately, “Releasing your Anger through Poetry ” will help you heal your wounds by releasing all tension, trapped emotions, and resentments you have held onto until now. So, finally, your mind and body can feel relief from all negative past experiences.

So many of us have struggled after coming out of tough households: to find ourselves, set boundaries, and even realize that how we were treated was not okay. It requires serious emotional unpacking on our part, and while it's a healthy growing experience, it's difficult to achieve.

When I came across this book, I was in need of more resources in this particular area, and I thought reading poems by someone with similar experiences to be might be cathartic (and it was), and I also thought that journaling would help me in processing my emotions, memories of childhood, and more (this is where I struggled).

This book is a combination of poetry and journaling exercises, which I think is wonderful. You can read the work and then apply it to your own life. I found the poetry to be heartfelt and beautiful in places, though it's not the imagistic, lyrical poetry that I more frequently read. Unfortunately, the journaling exercises weren't quite focused or detailed enough for me to get what I needed to get out of them. I needed more guidance, I think, on how to use these journaling sections, than what was provided. I found myself more or less responding to how the poems related to the journaling prompt made me feel, and what that made me want to do next in my healing journey... which was not the intention of the book, and often, I found myself struggling to think of what to do next, since I'm still figuring out what's best for me on this journey and what will help me heal.

While I do have a similar background to the writer of this book, I wonder if I'm not the target audience for this book, because I'm still very early in my healing journey, and I don't have other sources yet to assist me in the journey (a therapist, etc.). I think I just needed more "hand-holding" than this book was created to give.

For someone else who needs thoughtful poetry and journaling prompts to get them started, rather than to sort of "tell them what to do," I bet this would be the book for them.

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I'm a Midwestern writer now in coastal Croatia. I'm the EIC of LIT SHARK MAGAZINE & BANNED BOOK REVIEW, a poet, & novelist. I received my MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan Uni, where I began my work in publishing. My book reviews have appeared in THE RUMPUS, GREEN MOUNTAINS REV, BOOKPAGE, & more.

Synopsis

HEALING FROM A NARCISSISTIC IMMATURE MOTHER. The power of letting go.

1) Do painful memories from your childhood still affect you? Are you tired of feeling stuck in the past? The more you try to avoid these feelings, the more they plague you.

3) Do you want to overcome the hurt you faced from your abusive mother finally?

4) Everyone wants to move forward with their lives and forget past pain. Because, unconsciously, the brain thinks it is protecting you from all the danger and anxiety you faced in your childhood.

If you don’t do anything to repair the wounds inside you, moving forward and living a life of peace and joy can be challenging.

I got you.

I know it sucks when your mother doesn't care about you.

When the person who should love you doesn't love you the most.

And was never there for you.

The woman who gave you life from the first moment you were just a seed inside her.

The woman who brought you to the light of this world for the first time.

And it really sucks when she told you:

- That you are the root of her problems.

- Her life was perfect until you came.

- She wanted a perfect family, and you don't fit in.

- She wanted a son and you are a girl, or vice-versa.

- You are the worst thing that happened to her.

Not all moms are meant to be moms.

I know your mom put you through much pain, mentally and physically, and the worst thing is she thought she was doing the best for you and your brothers.

You suffer from anxiety and depression.

I don't know if you still love her or care about her. Maybe you hate her. Maybe she's the evilest woman in your life. I got you, I don't blame you, and I really get it. You feel this way for many reasons and you have a right to.

- This person hurt you very deeply in the moments you needed her the most.

- This person hurt your feelings and played with your emotions. She destroyed your belief in mothers.

You struggle with anxiety and depression from your past because of her.

HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE

(understand your mother and accept)

It may be the example her own parents gave her. So, understand that she is continuing the same pattern with you. Maybe she had a void in her childhood; an emptiness and loneliness. I don't know your situation but people say: hurt people hurt people. I am sure there must be an explanation, whatever the situation is, and I am extremely sympathetic.

Holding Grudges and Resentments from the Past Is a Poison from Your Own Bottle.

Holding resentments, grudges, feelings of revenge, and hate for your mom is a trap that only you can fall into. It's like a targeted poison that requires a personalized antidote; you are the only person affected by these resentments and hatreds.

And you may not care too much about this now, but living with these emotions, in the long term, can cause several dangerous health conditions such as: severe stress, gut health, advanced anxiety, and premature aging, among others, according to scientific studies. These areemotions that are punishing your body and mind. Now you understand why you suffer anxiety, depression, and loneliness. So, why continue hurting yourself?

If you keep these feelings (hate and revenge), you know what happens. You keep taking the poison, and the poison can kill you. But if you forgive, you free yourself from the trap.

You are not alone in this

You are not the only person, there are millions of people who were in your situation, maybe even worse off, but they had the desire and the intention to change their life by forgiving, and releasing hate and resentments that were just blocking their path forward. You can definitely do the same; if they could do it, so can you. You deserve all the best things in life as well: happiness, inner peace, success, love, and enjoying life to the fullest. You are a wonderful person, so believe you are.

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