Kelly McDaniel

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

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We literally lose our mind.

And that's universal because there's so much dopamine when we fall in love.

And we need that dopamine to feel good.

They did brain scans on the brain in love and noticed that the same parts of the brain light up with love as cocaine.

And so when you think about how primary this need for love is, if it's not getting met in a healthy way, we're going to find a substitute.

We have to.

Yep.

And a lot of times, the first substitute we have access to before the high that comes from cocaine or alcohol or work is food.

Well, let's look again at the word mother.

When we think of what does a mother do, I was not sure when I was going to write this book.

I was seeing mother hunger in my office.

Yeah.

I had named it.

I didn't know how to operationalize it or write about it.

So I looked up in the dictionary, what's the definition of mothering?

And it said to care for someone as a mother would.

How is that helpful?

So I think there's a real blind spot here, culturally, about the primacy of the mother-child dyad, how important it is.

With that said, any adult who has the time, the willingness to nurture, protect, and guide the child

can do that.

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