Episode · The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2026-05-21
Books mentioned on You’re Not Broken: Why You People-Please, Feel Anxious, & Never Feel Good Enough – and How to Heal
If you’re exhausted from always putting everyone else first, people-pleasing, and struggling with anxiety, this conversation is going to change how you see yourself.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mother Hunger
Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel is a psychological guide that explores the profound yearning for maternal love and the impact of compromised mother-child attachments on adult women.
Discussed“You know, one of the things that I love in your bestselling book, Mother Hunger, is that in the introduction, you tell readers that as you're learning about mother hunger...”
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Own book Mother Hunger
“She's also the best-selling author of the book Mother Hunger.”
Own book Mother Hunger
“Well, I think it's difficult to look with fresh eyes if we read this book as a parenting manual. So, if any of you out there, if you're a mom, it the tendency to pick up this book and start to examine how you've been a mother or are a mother is is ripe. And we don't that's not why”
Own book Mother Hunger
“Yeah, you may notice in the book I don't really use the word eating disorder because I think that clinical term has created a whole movement about how we treat eating disorders. Okay, that I found after working every woman I work with has has some form of food trouble.”