Maternal Ambivalence

The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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“The most anticipated parenting (and parenting-adjacent) books of spring 2025.” —The Boston Globe Featured on NPR/KERA, MsMagazine.com, WAMC, AM New York, KevinMD.com, New York Family Magazine, The Good Enough Mother, The Tara Hogan Show, and more.Maternal Ambivalence reveals the emotional complexity of motherhood that most women feel—but rarely discuss. With compassion and clarity, Dr. Margo Lowy breaks open the taboo around conflicting maternal emotions and shows how they can actually deepen understanding, connection, and self-acceptance. Drawing from clinical cases, cultural stories, and her own decades of mothering, Dr. Lowy offers a liberating perspective: our “darker” feelings are not a failing—they’re part of what makes love real. Readers Will Learn How To: Normalize complex emotions and let go of guiltUnderstand ambivalence as healthy and part of real-world motheringUse conflicting feelings to strengthen insight and connectionRelease unrealistic expectations and embrace authentic parentingTransform self-judgment into self-compassion Wise, honest, and deeply validating, Maternal Ambivalence reshapes how we talk about motherhood—and how mothers see themselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-24
Mått:140 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Post Hill Press
ISBN:9798888455982

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Dr. Margo Lowy is a psychotherapist with a specialty in mothering. In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, investigating the field of maternal ambivalence. Dr. Lowy is the author of a previous academic book on the topic of maternal ambivalence, The Maternal Experience: Encounters with Ambivalence and Love, and has spoken on the subject at universities and media outlets in the United States, Australia, and Israel. She is a contributor to Psychology Today and a former advisor to the founder of the Australian Jewish Fertility Network (AJFN). She is mother to three children and is based with her husband in New York City.

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“In Maternal Ambivalence, Dr. Lowy explores the unspoken experiences of motherhood, relieving us all of the myth of the ‘perfect mother.’ She has translated her personal and professional experiences of being a parent and a psychotherapist into an examination of the paradoxical loving and not-so-loving feelings that we often recognize in ourselves: anger, shame, guilt, and even moments of hatred. Far from being ‘bad,’ Lowy offers a thought-provoking, empowering point of view: that these feelings are normal, and also that understanding and naming them helps us to develop a language that strengthens our love and maternal bonds. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, and caretakers will identify with the moving, real-life stories from Dr. Lowy’s patients, her own accounts of raising children, as well as her insightful interpretations of the myths and media in our culture. She compels us to ask ourselves: how can we learn from these contradictory feelings? Acknowledging our ambivalence, she demonstrates movingly throughout, helps us to reach self-awareness and acceptance, and to be the mother our child needs us to be.”