Maternal Ambivalence: The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood
Autor Margo Lowy PhDen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2025
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 guilt
- Understand ambivalence as healthy and part of real-world mothering
- Use conflicting feelings to strengthen insight and connection
- Release unrealistic expectations and embrace authentic parenting
- Transform self-judgment into self-compassion
Wise, honest, and deeply validating, Maternal Ambivalence reshapes how we talk about motherhood—and how mothers see themselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798888455982
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Post Hill Press
Colecția Post Hill Press
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Post Hill Press
Colecția Post Hill Press
Notă biografică
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, a member of PEN America, 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.
Recenzii
“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.”
“In a world where curated versions of motherhood persist and undermine, this book from psychotherapist Margo Lowy is a helpful counterpoint that normalizes and unpacks messier emotions that can make so many people feel like not-good-enough parents.”
“In her book, [Dr. Margo Lowy] distills maternal ambivalence as a positive, calling it “the essence of mothering”...[Maternal Ambivalence] is one of several recent titles on motherhood by Jewish women that name and claim different ways of being a mom....In her exploration of the various emotions around that ambivalence, Lowy differentiates between feelings of guilt and shame, using case studies from her own practice as well as her experience as a parent of three children.”
“Mothers are supposed to be caring, happy and loving all day, every day. But that’s simply not the case. It’s a concept that Margo Lowy challenges in her powerful new book, Maternal Ambivalence, inviting readers into the complex emotional terrain that many mothers navigate but few openly discuss.… By acknowledging the difficulties alongside the joys, Lowy’s exploration offers a more nuanced understanding that many find validating and liberating.”
“In a world where curated versions of motherhood persist and undermine, this book from psychotherapist Margo Lowy is a helpful counterpoint that normalizes and unpacks messier emotions that can make so many people feel like not-good-enough parents.”
“In her book, [Dr. Margo Lowy] distills maternal ambivalence as a positive, calling it “the essence of mothering”...[Maternal Ambivalence] is one of several recent titles on motherhood by Jewish women that name and claim different ways of being a mom....In her exploration of the various emotions around that ambivalence, Lowy differentiates between feelings of guilt and shame, using case studies from her own practice as well as her experience as a parent of three children.”
“Mothers are supposed to be caring, happy and loving all day, every day. But that’s simply not the case. It’s a concept that Margo Lowy challenges in her powerful new book, Maternal Ambivalence, inviting readers into the complex emotional terrain that many mothers navigate but few openly discuss.… By acknowledging the difficulties alongside the joys, Lowy’s exploration offers a more nuanced understanding that many find validating and liberating.”
Descriere
“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.
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.