Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel

Mother Hunger

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

Kelly McDaniel

Hay House · Print & ebook · July 20, 2021

An insatiable need for sex and love.

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Who it’s for
Accessible guidance for making sense of lost nurturance, protection, and guidance.
Themes
childhood trauma, emotional healing, relationships
Pacing
Reflective

About this book

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.

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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.

What It Offers

Accessible guidance for making sense of lost nurturance, protection, and guidance.

Come here for

  • clear, usable framing
  • a calm, steady guide through a loaded topic

Expect

  • plainspoken psychology
  • practical, reflective language

Where it sits

Breaking Codependency67%
Motherhood26%
PTSD & Recovery19%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Dysfunctional Families
  • How We Develop
  • PTSD & Recovery
Authors
Kelly McDaniel
Publisher
Hay House
Published
July 20, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
childhood trauma · emotional healing · relationships
Reading lane
Dysfunctional Families