What is Mother Hunger?
Mother Hunger® is a term coined by the psychotherapist and author Kelly McDaniel to represent the particular grief experienced by many women. Kelly McDaniel defines Mother Hunger beautifully in her book, Mother Hunger®
How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing.
Mother Hunger® refers to a longing for the love and nurturing of a mother figure, regardless of whether their mother is still alive. It is not related to death but encompasses the emotional yearning for maternal connection. Women who have lost their mother while coming of age can still relate to the term Mother Hunger® because many women may have missed out on nurturance, protection, and guidance after their early mother loss.
Mother Hunger® is a term coined by the psychotherapist and author Kelly McDaniel to represent the particular grief experienced by many women
The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel helps women 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.
Mother Hunger® refers to a longing for the love and nurturing of a mother figure, regardless of whether their mother is still alive. It is not related to death but encompasses the emotional yearning for maternal connection. Women who have lost their mother while coming of age can still relate to the term Mother Hunger® because many women may have missed out on nurturance, protection, and guidance after their early mother loss.
Mother Hunger Online 8 week live via Zoom Psycho-Education Course
A live online group for women who have experienced Mother Hunger. Mother Hunger is a term created for daughters who have experienced a break in early attachment from their mothers. Maybe your mother experienced generational trauma and wasn’t able to provide you with what you needed. Maybe your mother died too early and you didn’t get the love, support, and nurturance you needed. Your mother doesn’t have to be dead to experience Mother Hunger. Many people have a mother to whom they have never felt close or had a healthy attachment while coming of age. If any of these Mother stories resonate with you, then this class is for you. I am offering a eight-week live, online class. It will be over soon and you will receive recordings if you are unable to make it.
MEET THE FACILITATOR
Angela Schellenberg, Mother Hunger Certified Facilitator
Hi, I’m Angela,
Welcome to my page. After reading Kelly McDaniel’s book, Mother Hunger®, I felt as if the sky opened up, and all of the pieces of the work I have been doing in my lifetime and the world came together. Mother Hunger® really is everything. I couldn’t help but think about the women I work with in my therapy practice and how this term, book, and work would resonate deeply with them.
I lost my mother twice, once to mental illness when I was eleven, she was institutionalized, and my role reversed to her caretaker. I know my mother loved me, and through attachment therapy and Kelly’s work, I realize how important it is to receive guidance, protection, and nurturing. In my story, I had it, and then it was taken away when my mother left her eyes. In between all this, my father was gunned down and murdered when I was sixteen, and my mother died six years later. In and out of foster care, I lived with many families, always searching for my identity, self-esteem, and safety.
I know firsthand what it feels like to repair this attachment wound. I was lucky enough to have my mother in those early years. She struggled with childhood trauma and abuse and couldn’t give me what she needed. How can we give our children something we didn’t have? We must work hard to heal these early childhood attachment wounds and generational trauma.
In my work as a certified elementary teacher and now an LMHC trauma attachment therapist. I specialize in Trauma, Grief, Loss, Motherless Daughters, Parentless Parents, and Sudden Instant Loss.
I spent time working with orphanage leaders in Asia as the director of a program called “I AM WHO?” where I taught orphanage leaders how to teach orphaned and disadvantaged children about identity, self-esteem, and safety. I saw firsthand how the lack of maternal care impacts children. I also saw and have experienced how having a caregiver that offers nurturance, protection, and guidance helps with attachment.
I am also a co-facilitator for early Mother Loss Retreats with Hope Edelman. Hope wrote the book, “Motherless Daughters” and is a New York Times Best Selling Author. Her book and retreats have changed many lives, including mine. I am confident that her guidance, friendship, and leadership aided my work as a trauma therapist. Working with women who had an early Mother loss, I see firsthand how the term, Mother Hunger®, affected many women with an early loss, especially if their mothers couldn’t give them what they needed before they died.
Remember, you are not what happened to you. It doesn’t get to define you.
Mother Hunger Retreats
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Mother Hunger Consultations
I am a certified facilitator in Mother Hunger. “Mother Hunger” is based upon Kelly McDaniels book. If you have read the book and are interested in joining a group or unpacking what came up for you, please reach out to me. I would love to help you process what came up for you in this amazing book.
I am an expert in walking clients through the trauma, attachment wound and grief that can come from lack of guidance, nurturance and protection. Kindly reach out to me today to start your healing and recovery journey.
Mother Hunger FB Page
Join our Mother Hunger Facebook page to meet people who have similar life experiences who can relate to your Mother Hunger stories.