Kelly McDaniel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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The Tamsen Show · The Hidden Reason You Keep Choosing Emotionally Unavailable People · 30 Jul 2026
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Thank you for having me.
It's wonderful to be here.
Well, it was an accident.
There was no term, mother hunger.
But I remember when I was a young woman and I was in my graduate program for English literature and I read Adrienne Rich.
She wrote this beautiful book of woman born.
And in that book it said, the loss of the mother to the daughter and the daughter to the mother is the essential female tragedy.
And that hit me.
I didn't know why, but my whole body reacted.
The fact that a mother-daughter could be central in any way was already kind of mind-blowing.
But then to really acknowledge that that loss is tragic felt very true to me.
Fast forward 20 years and some other trainings, and I'm working as a clinician with women primarily.
And these are women that are struggling with things that most of us struggle with, relationships and food.
And so if either had become addictive and we were distilling it a bit, like, what's happening?
I heard over and over again, I want my mom.
I define it as a distinct craving or yearning for a quality of love that we actually assign to mothers.
This yearning can get confused with romantic love, but it's a craving for nurturing and safety and for someone to admire.
Yes, I find that because mother hunger forms early on in the lifespan, generally between the age of zero and five, every infant born needs the same thing, nurturing and protection.
So boys, girls, doesn't matter.
Human infants need those things, not because we're needy or broken, but because we're human.
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