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.

This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.

A much needed book for every woman.

Your book has helped give language to parts of me that had no vocabulary for so many years. So much so that when I came across a sculpture by Chukesart of a mother holding her child in a solid embrace, I was able to identify the kind of nurturing embrace I had missed. The protection I yearned for and the guidance I so needed. Thank you Kelly. I appreciate you 🙏🏾

My life makes sense for the first time

If you have suffered from any type of abuse growing up I highly recommend you read this book.

A Life Saver In Challenging Times

As soon as I saw the title, I knew I had it— Mother Hunger— but I had no idea how profoundly I would be affected by reading it.
Reading Mother Hunger as a 67 year old survivor of extreme neglect and abuse by my mentally ill incompetent deceased mother while simultaneously raising my adult child with both autism and bi- polar disorder, opened doors to compassion and self healing I didn’t even know existed!!!

Profoundly enlightening!

I highly recommend this book to anyone who struggles with feeling states that seem to be recurring and without apparent cause. The author eloquently describes how our unmet mother/child attachment needs as a child manifests as feeling/behavior issues in adulthood and she offers resources to grow and break what is often an intergenerational maternal pattern. This book is life changing!

You should read this book

I found this book to be very helpful. I definitely helped me understand and put a name to these feelings emotions and behaviors. Learning to heal mother hunger.