Mel Robbins

Welcome back.

It's your friend Mel Robbins.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for staying with us.

I want to pick right back up where we left off with therapist Kelly McDaniel.

So Kelly, what about somebody who is listening going, well, I have a great relationship with my mom.

And my childhood was great.

Can you still have mother hunger even if you have a great relationship with your mom or you don't remember anything?

How common is it to have- No memory?

Yes.

Very, extremely common.

And it sounds like that's a very big signal to you as a therapist that somebody is struggling with mother hunger and yearning for mothering and safety.

Somebody was not safe as a child is what that's going to tell me.

And you're not necessarily saying safe physically, you're saying safe emotionally.

Yeah.

The body doesn't really differentiate.

Now, I got a question because you sharing that, I've heard almost every one of my friends say, I don't have a lot of memories from childhood.

What immediately happens when you start to consider your experience as a child

is that you feel like you're betraying your parents.