Mother Hunger Group
Build Connection and Understanding around attachment wounding from mom.
For adult daughters who feel lonely, disconnected and long to feel seen, heard, and understood around the pain of their relationship or lack thereof with mom.
When you have experienced Mother Hunger you may struggle with relationships, addictions, and/or difficulties with food.
Mother Hunger is a term coined by Kelly McDaniel, author of Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance.
What exactly is Mother Hunger?
Mother Hunger describes what it feels like to grow up with a mother who insufficiently meets the needs of you as the daughter. It leaves you struggling to feel secure in relationships and sure about yourself.
As an adult, it can feel like a craving for romantic love, but in reality, it is a craving for the love you didn’t receive as a young child.
If you have experienced Mother Hunger, you did not receive the nurturance, protection, and/or guidance you needed growing up.
Mother Hunger can start in infancy and may have carried on throughout your childhood years. You may still experience difficulties in your current relationship with your mom where you long for her to apologize (“apology ache”) or you struggle with “pathological hope” where you endlessly hope your mom will change despite evidence that she is not likely to.
Adult daughters with Mother Hunger deal with “frozen grief” and shame. Once we have a name for our pain, Mother Hunger, we can begin to unfreeze the grief that’s been stored for years and begin to heal.
The Mother Hunger Group is a good fit for:
Adult daughters with a strained relationship with mom
Adult daughters with an enmeshed relationship with mom
Adult daughters with no relationship with mom
Adult daughters who were adopted and have mixed feelings about their birth or adoptive mom
Adult daughters who have children of their own now
The common thread is unresolved feelings toward your mom that might including things like grief, anger, shame, sadness, resentment, numbness, etc.
This group will guide you through 8-10 weeks of psychoeducation to build insight into why you feel the way that you do. Mother Hunger helps us to make sense of the past so we can begin to heal today.
This group is best for those who have done a good amount of individual therapy, have strong coping skills, and are ready and able to face the pain of the past.
Grounding, orienting, containment, and self-soothing will be incorporated throughout this group.
Group is 60 minutes in length, every Monday at 5pm for 8-10 weeks. Group will be led by Natalie LeQuang, LPC-MHSP who has trained with Kelly McDaniel to facilitate Mother Hunger groups.
Time: Mondays at 5pm
Location: Telehealth
Duration: 8-10 weeks
Cost: $100 per session