Mother Hunger

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

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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Finally found someone who put into words what I’ve felt for many years!

Mother-Daughter relationships are very complicated and this book dives deep into the EMOTIONAL HUNGER daughters face when some mothers “did the best with what the knew” (oftentimes, not much!)

If you ever have a longing to understand that void you have in your mother-daughter relationship then this book is for you!

Beyond excellent!

I have no idea how I found this book,but it was one of the most life-changing books I’ve ever read. I knew I had a mother hunger, but I didn’t have a clear grasp on the scope of the damage that happens to a child when there’s anxious and insecure attachment. Furthermore, I didn’t have a blueprint or a path forward terms of how to heal from that lingering simmering pain that was forever seeking self soothing. I was aware that I had an ocean of grief inside me, I even talked about it, and I consciously knew a piece of it was the lack of nurturing and connection to my mother, Ibut I didn’t realize that a lack of a mother’s love,, nurturing, guidance and protection is the primary trauma. At least it was for me. This book was beautifully written, and exquisitely read in the author’s ind and gentle voice. It has made me very hopeful that I can and I will heal my mother hunger. And that on the other side i’ll be the love, security, joy and even peace of mind I’ve been seeking my whole life and all the wrong places. And that I will arrive by learning how to give myself what was inconsistently and insufficiently given to me by my mother who I can clearly see has a mother hunger of her own. I feel compassion and kindness towards her, and I hope that in her lifetime she’s able to do the healing the Kelly holds out for all mothers, and all daughters. Thank you Kelly for this exceptional book. I recall you stating in the conclusion that it was a difficult book to write. I understand why. But you nailed it. What a gift to all of us. May you be abundantly blessed with the love and gratitude of women the world over.

Bac quality audio

I have enjoyed the book very much however the audio is a really bad quality.

Great content poor audio

Book is great and content is on point; however, listening to the book was frustrating as there were frequent audio issues, where you could hear the reader breathing, stuttering, pausing, and adjusting and/ or hitting the mic.

Beautiful Content!

The content itself is beautiful. Very informative and helpful. The audio mix has room for improvement. Audio would benefit from additional editing in post for clean mix, as there were several occurrences of popping and had some difficulties at higher read speeds.