Growing up with a narcissistic mother often plants a quiet, persistent question in your mind: Will I ever be enough? Enough to be seen, loved, or accepted without performing, perfecting, or holding everything together. This doubt doesn’t appear out of nowhere. It comes from years of emotional unpredictability, minimisation, or conditional love—experiences that teach you to abandon yourself to stay safe.

Women raised in these dynamics often carry chronic self-doubt, guilt for having needs, hyper-independence, people-pleasing, perfectionism, difficulty trusting their instincts, emotional invisibility, and a nervous system that’s always bracing for the next shift. These aren’t flaws. They’re intelligent survival strategies your younger self created to maintain safety and connection.

This is why I choose to work specifically with daughters of narcissistic mothers. You deserve a space where your story is understood without explanation, where your body’s responses make sense, and where you can reconnect with who you are beyond the roles you were trained to play. When you start viewing yourself through compassion, clarity, and self-trust, the old question—Will I ever be enough?—begins to dissolve. And that’s where the real healing begins.