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  • Mother Hunger

  • How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
  • By: Kelly McDaniel
  • Narrated by: Kelly McDaniel
  • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (50 ratings)

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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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Absolutely amazing

This book punched me in my guts and cradled my soul all at once. I am forever changed because of it.

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Extremely insightful

Eye opening. Triggering but like all healing you have to rip the bandaid off. Can’t seem to find the PDF attachment?

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Exceptional

Thank you for putting words to our stories. Confronting and comforting. Profound and provoking. Let the healing begin.

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Brilliant piece of writing!! Highly highly recommend for anyone who has gaps in their childhood and for those who mother.

As an adopted person, Attachment Specialist and Somatic Psychotherapist, this book brought it all together for me. It is the missing piece for so many of us who grew up without the secure attachment we were wired for.

Kelly brings a difficult, but heartfelt, examination of attachment, trauma and parenting together in a permeating, normalizing and healing way. I couldn’t put it down.

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Hands down the best book I have ever readZ

If you are interested in this book - cause the title got you - this book will change your life

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Brilliant

Brilliant, insightful and desperately needed to heal the intergenerational wounds. For practitioners and self healers.

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Giving language to primal heartache

What an incredible book. I’ve consumed it in four days and am bound to listen again and again as it is filled with such insight and compassion for an experience that many find hard to believe really happens. Not every woman wants to be a mother. Not every woman is suited to motherhood. Not every daughter has an ideal relationship with her mother. It’s a must read.

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Where has this been

This book ripped me open and yet soothed at the same time . I cried and had those aha moments

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Blessings Love and Light ✨

This book opened the gate to the very place I did not realise I needed healing the most.
Now I understand where my healing was taking me.
It it very important to take Kelly's advice and take breaks and be kind and gentle with yourself throughout this book.
Thank you Kelly McDaniel for your guiding light and writing this incredible book.
Your work is what my ancestors were pushing me towards and I am so grateful.
Bless you and every Daughter and Mother past present and future🙏🏽🌌✨

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So needed for us all

Valuable information for anyone with a mother or knows a mother or wants to be a mother.

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