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Mother Hunger

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

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Mother Hunger

By: Kelly McDaniel
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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. 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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©2021 Hay House (P)2021 Hay House
Developmental Psychology Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Mental Health Parenting & Families Personal Development Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Health Emotions Childhood Trauma

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Listening to this book has been an extremely validating experience. highly highly recommended for anyone with complicated experiences with parents, specifically daughters to mothers

Highly validating. Super grateful

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Please listen to this if you are on this heroines journey. Compassionate intelligent, and puts a language on the unexplainable. Beautifully paced narration that allows the listener to process the feelings associated with lack of mothering, rather than avoid through intellectual understanding. Kelly's non blaming theme opens up the possibility of a dialogue, perhaps even with mothers who may be defensive, or lack the emotional maturity to begin the process of healing deep and destructive intergenerational legacies.

A mother void must

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Love how this book is structured. It is very insightful and is written with warmth and compassion. Love that it includes lots of info on how to heal and provides information on where to get help. I feel less alone after reading this book, it focuses on trauma and addiction I’ve never understood up until now. Things I’d never want to talk about with the people in my life, as doing so could result in me feeling uncomfortable or being judged. Wish all mums would read this book because there would be far less traumatised people in the world if they did.

Outstanding book, written by a beautiful soul

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So many revelations in understanding myself in relation to my mother. So many lightbulb moments and so many tears of grief and recognition. A gently read, powerful punch of a book that encourages you to heal whilst listening to it. Kelly's caring and respectful reading manner is beautifully supportive. I felt the sound dipped in and out especially earlier in the book. I could recommend this book to every woman I know and they would all take something from it. Thank you Kelly for explaining mother hunger.

Possibly the most important book I'll ever read.

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Fascinating subject and so well researched. The author definitely has great knowledge of this really complex subject. However, I struggle to listen to the the author read this book. At first I thought it might be because of language, author is American, but it’s not that, it’s the author’s intonation. Even when I turned up the volume, it was still difficult to catch some words in sentences. Have decided to read the book as it is too frustrating trying to work out what is being said. This is only reason why I couldn’t give 5* rating for every category. Most annoying!

Fascinating subject, poor performance

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I will only say a heartfelt thank you to Kelly for writing this wonderful book and I do hope it will get translated into as many languages as possible. ❤️

Thank you

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I came across the book/author on a fb clip and immediately tried to find it but the earliest date being 10 days away. Unwillingly I downloaded it to listen to (not much an audio person having failed with a previous book).

I managed to read/listen to it in one sitting!l such an easy read with a soothing voice. In fact I re read it the following day ( I like to make notes).

Thank you for your time, effort and healing intent in writing this book. It has helped me understand a life time of pain. ❤️

Changed my life

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Such a helpful book, you have explained my loss and my mother wound so well, thank you so much.

Excellent explanation of the mother wound.

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The ideas in this book are revolutionary for me. I hugely appreciate the work of the author and have bought this in print too.

However, this recording is not up to the usual audible standard. Background noise distracting at times. Over-the-top softly softly American accent as if she's trying to send you to sleep. Hearing extraneous noise makes me wonder where it was recorded.
Disappointed as the normal Audible quality is excellent.

Excellent book, terrible recording

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So deeply insightful and clarifying. Really foundational, brilliant understanding of the role of mother and the consequences of a compromised mother presence.

Incredible book

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