Many women arrive in therapy carrying a quiet but persistent sense that something wasn’t right in their childhood, even if they can’t immediately name it. They may describe chronic guilt, self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, or a lifelong feeling of being “too much” or “not enough”.

For daughters raised by narcissistic mothers, these patterns are not character flaws. They are adaptive responses to a relational environment that was emotionally unsafe, inconsistent, or centred around the mother’s needs rather than the child’s. Read blog