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

Mother loss comes in many forms: cancer, suicide, illness, murder, accidents. And while many women still have their mothers, they have lost them to abandonment, addiction, memory malfunction, mental illness and more.
Kelly McDaniel is an author and clinician supporting women on the journey toward relational wholeness.
In her first book, Ready to Heal, she addresses cultural double standards and family wounds that set women up for addictive relationship habits.
Her second book, Mother Hunger, is the culmination of 30 years of research, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of mothering myths. Mother Hunger provides women a name for the misunderstood root of poor eating patterns, chronic relationship disappointment, and distorted self image.
In Mother Hunger what Kelly does is validate the experience of mother loss by giving a poignant name to a phenomenon that many will know very well and offer an elegant and useful framework for healing.
In short, this is a conversation about childhood attachment injuries and their lasting impact. Kelly destigmatized the shame that comes with being under-mothered and offers a healing path with powerful tools that include lifestyle changes and therapeutic interventions.
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[@nishiramkhelawan8622]

My Mother had suffered trauma when she was growing up. She didn't receive love, didn't know how to love. I made it my mission to change this, I loved my children with everything I had. I felt loved because I loved them.❤

[@elizabethdean0187]

Indeed, as women we are socialized to be all things to all people at the expense of knowing ourselves, and to not be in touch with our own needs for nurturance and protection. Being in touch with needing nurturance and protection is often viewed as being a feminine trait and a weakness, yet we aim to be strong for everyone else and having few needs.
The message of needing to learn to mother ourselves resonates, however having that level of unconditional deep caring come from another would be nice. Having said that, I do have a remarkable husband. I follow Gabor Mate’s outstanding work and reflect on how I may have inadvertently deprived my son emotionally when he was growing up. He has remarkable social skill but I wonder about his capacity to ‘attach’ deeply.
I came from a dysfunctional family. It may not have been apparent to others (English families rarely disclose at a meaningful level as it shows vulnerability (weakness), yet showing vulnerability is a strength. On the surface nothing was said, yet the emotional deprivation was painful and, at times, still is, although I now appreciate both parents themselves were emotionally deprived growing up. As the family was breaking up, I vividly recall my mother reflecting sensitively that ‘boys need a father’. Subconsciously I interpreted this to mean my brother was worthy of nurturance and protection and I was not.
Thank you for sharing the insights. Ever illuminating. Professor-Elizabeth

[@SideB1984]

Love Marion Woodman’s book Addiction to Perfection part about disordered eating.

[@angelamossucco2190]

I will read this. Thank you.

[@drsandhyathumsikumar4479]

Lovely interview ..women wisdom well shared 🎉.

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Many thanks for this helpful podcast 🙏🏻👍🏻🌺🌺❤

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wow this is really good 🥲