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Mother Hunger
- How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
- Narrated by: Kelly McDaniel
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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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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- 31-05-22
Changed my life
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. ❤️
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- 18-08-21
Fascinating subject, poor performance
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!
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- Sciencetweacher
- 25-07-22
Excellent book, terrible recording
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.
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- Chana
- 12-11-23
Incredible book
So deeply insightful and clarifying. Really foundational, brilliant understanding of the role of mother and the consequences of a compromised mother presence.
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- janine hardy
- 24-07-22
A mother void must
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.
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- zoe senior
- 11-12-21
Outstanding book, written by a beautiful soul
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.
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- Sabi
- 03-11-22
Possibly the most important book I'll ever read.
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.
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- J A Summers
- 06-07-22
brilliant book highly recommended
Nice voice, great messages, fosters hope, thought provoking. Recommended by me as a counsellor
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- Rosemary Barham
- 26-08-23
Life changing
I have been in therapy for what seems like ages and truthfully getting nowhere fast and I believe the therapist was at her wits end.
Then I found this book and after reading the first couple of chapters I suddenly realised it all made sense to me. Now a couple of weeks or so after begining to read this book my second to last therapy session was so different, full of giggles and smiles on both sides. I'd actually been worried about my second to last session. I recommended your book to my therapist and she thanked me as she'd never seen it before so I hope she reads it.
Reading your book has honestly changed my life hopefully for ever.
My mum's mum died when my Mum was 6 years old so she had no guidance she did the best she could as the relative she ended up with was her Victorian grandmother who she told me ruled her and her sister with a rod of iron, she kept a clean house and always fed them and made sure they had clean clothes and I got the impression that was it.
Thank you so much for writing your book, brilliant.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-09-22
Great Book
I could see my own trauma through this book but also that I’d passed this on to my daughters. One of my daughters is also reading this book and I’m hoping we can heal and move forward together.
Very well written and read
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