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Book Reviews of Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility

Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility
Too Good for Her Own Good Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility
Author: Claudia Bepko, Jo-Ann Krestan
ISBN-13: 9780060163655
ISBN-10: 0060163658
Publication Date: 6/1990
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Harpercollins
Book Type: Hardcover
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FeliciaJ avatar reviewed Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility on + 136 more book reviews
This insightful book explains why so many women feel responsible for the happiness of others and why they strive to be perfectly attractive, competent and giving and feel like failures if they don't measure up. It helps women learn to feel good about and to take care of themselves.
Lelopit avatar reviewed Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility on + 273 more book reviews
This book gives a powerful voice to the experiance of being a woman.
reviewed Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility on + 4 more book reviews
I found this book extremely helpful and relevant. I had been trying to understand my own strugglesas a wife, mother, daughter, and sisterby looking at my family of birth background.

These writers/researchers/therapists treat the issue of over-responsibility in women as a cultural phenomenon that most women struggle with. I found this very freeing and helpful.

The book addresses the problem of women's tendency to take too much responsibility for relationships--especially in the family. The writers offer sound and highly effective counsel for how to begin to hear and use one's own voice, and to allow others to take responsibility for themselves.