Mother Hunger, Revised Edition: Understand and Heal the Wounds of Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

In Mother Hunger, therapist Kelly McDaniel revealed how the loss of maternal nurturance, protection, and guidance shapes women’s self-worth and relationships, and offered a compassionate roadmap to healing. Now expanded with new insights on men and Mother Hunger, first-born daughters, and parenting while recovering from it.

Millions of women quietly live with an ache they can’t name—a deep longing for the kind of love, safety, and connection they never fully received from their mothers. In t...