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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.

This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download. 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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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.

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

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

Hands down the best book I have ever readZ

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

Brilliant

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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🙏🏽🌌✨

Blessings Love and Light ✨

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

So needed for us all

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