Books by Dr. Yolanda Adwoa, PhD
My books explore the experiences that shape family health and well-being—from parenting, caregiving, food, and everyday family life to relationships, health challenges, faith, culture, and the social and economic realities families navigate.
Grounded in health psychology, family systems, research, and faith, my writing invites readers to look more deeply at the psychological and relational experiences that influence how individuals and families live, adapt, and thrive.
From the Kitchen to Well-Being
The Psychology of Motherhood, Food, and Family Health
Now Available for Pre-Order
Releasing 2026
Available in Hardcover, Paperback, and E-Book
What are we missing?
A woman’s life can look well from the outside. She can be raising a family, building a career, managing responsibilities, maintaining relationships, caring for others, and doing everything expected of her.
But appearances do not always tell us how she is experiencing her life within.
From the Kitchen to Well-Being: The Psychology of Motherhood, Food, and Family Health explores the psychological lives of women and mothers—and the connections between food, emotions, identity, motherhood, relationships, family life, and psychological well-being.
The kitchen becomes more than a place where meals are prepared. It is a place where family life unfolds—where culture, memories, expectations, caregiving, relationships, and our experiences with food can intersect.
Through psychological insight, reflection, and stories, the book invites us to look beyond what we can easily see and consider the internal experiences that may be much easier to miss.
Because food is more than food. And well-being is more than what we see on the outside.
Available Formats
Hardcover •Paperback - E-Book -
The first 100 pre-orders placed directly through this website will receive a personally signed copy from Dr. Adwoa.
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Releasing in 2027
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When a child receives a diagnosis, who sees the mother behind it?
So much attention understandably turns toward the child—the appointments, specialists, treatments, therapies, decisions, and uncertainty.
But behind the diagnosis is often a mother carrying a story of her own.
The Mother Behind the Diagnosis explores the often unseen psychological, relational, and spiritual experiences of mothers navigating a child's health challenges and the weight of caregiving.
Blending personal story, psychological research, faith, and a medical family therapy perspective, Dr. Adwoa invites readers into a deeper conversation about identity, relationships, family life, psychological well-being, and what it means to search for God and healing when life does not unfold as expected.
This is a story informed by research—but it is also deeply personal.
Because behind the diagnosis is a mother. And she has a story, too.
Coming 2027