Mother Hunger

How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

De: Kelly McDaniel

Narrado por: Kelly McDaniel

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships.

Does this sound painfully familiar?

Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are unable to stop.

Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships.

The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.

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Everything was great up until the end.

I really enjoyed the majority of this book but I really disliked the anti-masking commentary at the end. Studies have been showing for years that child care centers have nothing on fostering development quite like a loving attached parent/consistent caretaker. In those circumstances studies are showing that babies absolutely thrive -and masking isn't necessary. If anything we should be looking at how these securely attached babies are thriving developmentally when parents/consistent care taker is with them. And then supporting families in any way we can as a society to have the ability to stay home with their children. Overall, I would recommend the book but suggest skipping the conclusion.

Powerful and educational

Finally a book that helps to validate and explain my feelings I’ve had for 40+ years of my life. It was hard to listen to at moments and it brought me to tears several times. Luckily I have an amazing therapist with whom I’ve done EMDR for childhood trauma involving my mother. I can continue healing further with the new insights this book has provided me.

Moving and important book for all women, mothers or not.

This book was a gentle yet powerful call to recognize the power and importance of the Mother Wound. Thank you for helping the reader to recognize the depths of how the Mother connection influences our healing and growth. Your message is vast and profound; thank you!

Enlightening

This book should also be one of those go to books like what to expect. it provides so much insight that an expecting, adopting parent could benefit from

Wonderfully Written

Wonderfully written, this book really touched my soul. Understanding that mother hunger is real has helped me make steps into healing myself. 10/10