Maternal Ambivalence by Lowy, Margo;

The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood

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Publisher Post Hill Press
Date of Publication 24 April 2025
Number of Volumes Trade Paperback

ISBN 9798888455982
Binding Paperback
No. of pages208 pages
Size 209x139x15 mm
Weight 222 g
Language English

Short description:

“The most anticipated parenting (and parenting-adjacent) books of spring 2025.” &&&8212;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.

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“The most anticipated parenting (and parenting-adjacent) books of spring 2025.” &&&8212;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&&&8212;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&&&8212;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&&&8212;and how mothers see themselves.

“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.”