Today's special guest is Dr. Karyl McBride. This episode is focused around trauma recovery for adult children of narcissistic mothers. Being a child of a narcissist often leaves people wondering...Will I ever be good enough? And Will I Ever Be Good Enough? is the title of Dr. McBride's first book. Her most recent, Will The Drama Ever End? is out now in hardcover, audiobook and ebook formats and will be available 3.26.24 in paperback. She focuses on the recovery process and provides helpful tools and context in this episode.

About Dr. McBride:

Karyl McBride, Ph.D., LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Denver, Colorado with thirty-nine plus years of public and private practice. She specializes in treating clients with dysfunctional family issues. For the past many years, Dr. McBride has been involved in private research regarding parental narcissism and the debilitating effects of narcissism in relationships. She has treated many adult children of narcissistic parents as well as many others involved in relationships with narcissists in her private practice. Dr. McBride is considered a pioneering and leading expert in her field. Dr. McBride also has extensive clinical experience in the fields of trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, divorce, and stepfamily therapy, marital and family therapy, specialized trauma treatment in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and individual adjustment issues related to anxiety, depression, and life transitions. In her career, Dr. McBride has done forensic consulting and has served as an expert witness in numerous civil and criminal cases involving children and sexual abuse. She has nine years’ experience conducting sexual abuse investigations with law enforcement and has conducted training for law enforcement in the area of sexual abuse investigations. In 1996, she was invited to present her doctoral research at the International Police Research Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Books website: https://willieverbegoodenough.com/

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