Kelly McDaniel

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429 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Maybe it was a third grade teacher who every time you walked into her classroom, her eyes lit up.

She clearly took delight in you.

That makes an impact.

And that is who you could think about on Mother's Day.

whether it was an aunt, a friend, a babysitter, a teacher, whoever gave you a sense, even if it was only for 30 seconds, that you are delightful.

That's something to think about on Mother's Day.

I think we need to forgive our mothers in order to be happy within ourselves.

Forgiveness is something we really do to loosen up any resentment we feel, to let ourselves off the hook of being angry or hurt or jealous.

We can forgive our mother whether she's alive or not.

We can forgive our mother whether she apologizes or not.

One of the terms I came up with in Mother Hunger is called an apology ache.

Most adult daughters that I talk to are aching for their mother to see them, acknowledge where she was hurtful, not available, and say, I'm sorry.

and change the behavior, not just say, I'm sorry, oh, poor me, but literally change the behavior.

What I find is that in forgiving our mothers, that apology ache gets smaller.

And then we don't project it onto our lovers and friends.

But until we forgive our mothers, we might be looking to our lovers and friends to compensate for where she was actually the one that was hurtful.

Well, being an emotional eater is also part of being human.

Eating is like love.

It's nurturing.

So it depends on the spectrum of deprivation.

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