Kelly McDaniel

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429 appearances 1 recordings 1 series 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 podcast

But for those of us that are on a spectrum of eating that we're not really comfortable with, it doesn't always help.

So I have come to understand mother hunger, and I use the word hunger because hunger is biological.

We have to eat.

The need for love is biological.

We have to attach.

If that attachment doesn't happen early,

And let's say we're born to a mother who's not available very often and we're passed around a bunch of caregivers and some feed us well and some don't.

Or let's say we're born to a mother who tries her best.

She's holding us.

She's feeding us, nursing us, but she's not really comfortable and we're not really comfortable in her arms.

The first experience we have of feeling good may come from having a full belly.

So that's a comfort.

It literally takes away a hunger pain.

Whenever I work with women, whether they're healing their relationship with their body and food or with lovers and friends, the root is mother hunger.

I think what surprised me is there was nothing in my clinical training that prepared me for this.

It wasn't discussed.

The primacy of early attachment was not being looked at.

And so I was needing to go find other ways to train myself.

One of the anthropologist authors I really enjoyed learning from was Helen Fisher, Dr. Helen Fisher.

She talks about how when we fall in love, it's temporary madness.

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