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

Author:
Kelly Mcdaniel
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Kelly Mcdaniel
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Book
19
Narrator
9
Release Date
July 20, 2021
Duration
7 hours 57 minutes
Summary
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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Reviews
Profile Avatar Lena V. Jun 2025

The most important book I've ever read. I'm speechless and forever grateful. It is the only book that has actually changed my life/ my relationship to myself, and I am still amazed. There was a lot of tears, and a lot of healing. Thank you

Profile Avatar SidityReads Mar 2025

As someone who is currently battling mother hunger this book has taught me so much in under 10 hours! 1000/10 recommend listening as a daughter even if you are a mother yourself. We all deserve grace! :)

Profile Avatar Anonymous Feb 2023

For me, chapters 5 - 10 were valuable in terms of understanding my own mother-daughter relationship. The narration is soothing.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Aug 2022

As a Therapist and a woman healing from 3rd degree mother hunger, I find the content in this book to be wonderful. I will say that there is one element I disagree with, and that's any recommendation for someone to attend OA, Overeaters Anonymous, which makes disordered eating worse for many. I take much more of an Intuitive Eating training stance with myself and my clients who have a disordered relationship with eating. I recommend a HAES-aligned Nutrition expert who teaches Intuitive Eating if someone has the resources. Otherwise, the Intuitive Eating workbook by Tribole and Resch is far superior to the guidance in OA and easier on the budget. Otherwise, I think the book is an excellent read for any woman with mother hunger. As for the narrator, I also found that she used far too much variety in her volume, and was very hard for me to understand during times when she was reading heavy research or psych lingo content. Her tone was warm and caring, but hard to follow more than a few times throughout the book. Overall absolutely worth the purchase however!

Profile Avatar Lori Kaye L. Jun 2022

I’m in full support of the content but the narration on this is horrible. I had to adjust the volume up and down more times than I can count, and she often sounded “wet” in her delivery which distracted from this valuable content.

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

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

Author: Kelly Mcdaniel
Read by: Kelly Mcdaniel
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