Mother Hunger® Group Therapy
Your Mom Is Never Going to be your Best Friend…
You’ve had a complicated relationship with your mother for as long as you can remember. You’ve never felt like she understood you. If you get upset with her, she automatically makes you feel guilty. How dare you express any feelings of anger or frustration towards her after everything she has done for you. Every time you try to have a heart-to-heart with your mom, you’re left feeling misunderstood, hopeless, and guilty for bringing your feelings up in the first place.
You Want That Gilmore Girls Kind of Relationship
You try to make meaningful memories with your mom. You invite her to shopping dates and to get mani-pedis, but she always makes hurtful comments that contribute to your low self-esteem. You try to tell her that she hurt your feelings, but she tells you that you’re just too sensitive.
You Have Trouble Setting Boundaries
You have little confidence that anyone will really love you. How could anyone love someone who is this high-maintenance and overly emotional? This lack of confidence contributes to your low standards in romantic partners and friendships. You feel like you have to take what you can get. Sure, my loved ones don’t prioritize me or respect my boundaries, but it beats being alone.
What to Expect in a Mother Hunger® Group?
I am a black therapist in Maryland who helps women identify the root of their painful feelings and learn how to better manage their relationships. What does that look like for you? The outcome may look different for everyone. It may mean cutting off all communication with your mom. It might mean setting appropriate boundaries with your mom despite the disrespect of those boundaries. The majority of the daughters I work with would love to create a healthier relationship with their mothers. They yearn for the moment when their mother recognizes how much she hurt them and asks for forgiveness. I want this hallmark moment for all my clients. Unfortunately, so many women never experience this. I can help with the grieving process of that loss.
My role is to give you a safe space to explore these painful and complicated feelings so you can decide how to make YOU the priority. I help women understand the connection between strenuous relationships with their mothers and difficulties in connecting in relationships in adulthood. Together, we will explore early childhood memories, process the painful feelings associated with those memories, and work on managing current relationships with your mother or with your other close relationships.
Finally, a group of women who get it!
The beauty of participating in a Mother Hunger Group is that you are surrounded by other women who truly understand your pain. I hear so many clients share how alone they feel in their feelings. Often when women share painful experiences with their mothers, they are met with people urging them to show more compassion or gratitude for their mothers. This can leave the daughters feeling judged, misunderstood, or as if they are losing their minds.
Through the Mother Hunger group you will:
Learn how to effectively grieve your mother and/or the mother-daughter relationship you desire
Learn how to set appropriate boundaries
Learn how to effectively communicate your feelings.
Gain support from other women who understand how you feel
Gain support from a therapist who specializes in relationship anxiety
You Are Not Alone Anymore
If you are ready to heal from Mother Hunger, call 301-467-4735 to be added to the list for an upcoming online therapy group. You deserve to feel heard and to have your feelings prioritized.
If you feel like you’d like to explore your mother hunger in individual counseling in Bel Air, MD instead of in a group setting or you would like to schedule a chat with me before you make a decision, schedule a FREE 15-minute consultation to ask any questions.
FAQs about Mother Hunger Therapy Groups
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Mother Hunger is a term to describe a specific type of ache or yearning for the love and closeness of your mother. The book “Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal From the Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance” beautifully outlines the pain adult daughters feel when all they want is a close relationship with their mothers. A relationship where they can show up fully as themselves and still feel acceptance and love. Author Kelly McDaniels, LPC, NCC provides guidance on how to manage these painful feelings.
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The Mother Hunger groups are a psychoeducation group and is not covered under insurance plans.
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The rates for the Mother Hunger Group are different based on if they are in person, online, a weekend workshop, or an on going 8 week group. Call 301-467-4735 for the rates for upcoming groups.
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I offer 8 week groups and weekend workshop. Call 301-467-4735 for information on upcoming groups.