Book Recommendation: Motherf*cked

If your mom is the reason you're in therapy, this is your May read.

Motherf*cked is mental health journalist Ashley Oerman's honest, dryly funny primer on what to do when the woman who raised you is also the one you're still trying to recover from. Drawing on interviews with licensed clinicians (Whitney contributed to this book!) and her own perfect attendance in therapy, Oerman explores the real repercussions of these dynamics and how to work through them.

Inside, you'll get expert-backed tools to:

• Understand how your relationship with your mom shaped your mental health, attachment style, and adult relationships
• Spot the patterns underneath the chaos, like generational trauma, narcissism, and emotional immaturity
• Move through hard feelings
• Set boundaries that actually hold (her "Boundary Concierge" tool is genuinely useful) and figure out whether low or no contact is the right call for you
• Prepare for the drama that comes with changing the dynamic, or stepping away from it

It's validating, it's funny, and it gives you permission to stop pretending the relationship is fine if it’s not.