Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

by Kelly McDaniel

Cognitive processing is inextricably linked with our bodies. . . . All early relational dynamics with primary caregivers, traumatic or nontraumatic, serve as blueprints for the child’s developing cognition and belief systems, and these belief systems influence the posture, structure and movement of the body.”