
Mother Hunger
How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal From Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
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
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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 Codependency | 67% |
|---|---|
| Motherhood | 26% |
| PTSD & Recovery | 19% |
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