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

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Kelly McDaniel has eloquently described the various forms of neglect that can shape our experiences in life and continue to impact us as adult women. We are standing in solidarity with all the mothers and their children who are being failed by the current system. 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. Maybe your mother experienced generational trauma and wasn’t able to provide you with what you needed.

That’s what a civil rights lawyer wrote to Julia Lurie, the day after her major investigation into a psychiatric hospital chain that uses foster children as “cash cows” published, letting her know he was using her findings that same day in a hearing to keep a child out of one of the facilities we investigated. The sheer quantity of the country’s combined waste makes it a major source of climate pollution: Food waste accounts for as much as 10 percentof global greenhouse gas emissions.

And it is only because Mother Jones is funded primarily by donations from readers that we can mount ambitious, yearlong— or more—investigations like these two stories that are making waves. Your mom may have had an addiction or mental or physical illness that superseded her ability to care for you.The Center For Integrative Change helps individuals and couples struggling with addiction and trauma. Many people have a mother to whom they have never felt close or had a healthy attachment while coming of age. Mother Hunger® refers to a longing for the love and nurturing of a mother figure, regardless of whether their mother is still alive. She is invested in assisting women who are experiencing betrayal trauma because of their relationship.