The Mother Load: Caring for the Woman Who Couldn’t Care for You

What happens when the woman who raised you…

becomes the woman you now have to care for?

The Mother Load is a deeply honest and healing book for anyone navigating the emotional weight of caregiving, especially when the relationship with your mother was marked by emotional distance, absence, or unresolved pain.

With raw truth and gentle compassion, author Dana Y. Briggs shares her personal journey as a daughter-turned-caregiver, offering reflection, validation, and release for the cycle-breakers, the emotionally exhausted, and the ones carrying what was never theirs to hold.

This book is:

• For the daughters still aching for the love they never received.
• For the sons who show up daily despite the silence or hurt.
• For the adult children learning how to set boundaries, offer care, and still hold space for their own healing.

You are not alone in this.

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Pair it with the Healing Companion Workbook for guided prompts, journaling, and space to process what comes up along the way.