From the Kitchen to Well-Being

The Psychology of Motherhood, Food, and Family Health

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Now Available for Pre-Order

Releasing 2026

Available in Hardcover, Paperback, and E-Book

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A Psychologically Grounded Exploration of Maternal Well-Being and Family Life

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From the Kitchen to Well-Being examines mothers' psychological well-being and what it means for family life.

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Every day, mothers make hundreds of decisions around food — what to cook, what to eat, what to feed their children, and how to hold it all together when time, energy, and emotional reserves are running low. These decisions are rarely just about nutrition. They are shaped by stress, memory, cultural identity, emotional life, and the invisible weight of caregiving.

 

Grounded in Dr. Adwoa's nationwide psychological research on African, African American, and Caribbean mothers, this book examines how food attitudes, everyday eating behaviors, weight concerns, and emotional life shape maternal well-being — and why this matters deeply for families.

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It explores how a mother's relationship with food — how she feeds herself, how she feeds her family, and the emotional meaning she attaches to both — quietly shapes the health, emotional climate, and long-term well-being of everyone in her home.

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This book speaks honestly about what it feels like when something is missing — the quiet exhaustion, the sense of carrying everything alone, even when life looks fine from the outside. And it offers a path back: rooted in faith, in family, and in a renewed sense of purpose as a wife, mother, and nurturer of the home.

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Food is more than food.™

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Who This Book Is For

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• Mothers curious about the psychological relationship between food, emotion, and well-being

• Women who sense something is missing — a quiet exhaustion, a loss of self, a sadness with no name — even when life looks "fine" from the outside

• Wives and mothers seeking to reconnect with faith, family, and their calling as nurturer of the home

• Families navigating health, caregiving, disability, or neurodivergence, and the patterns that shape them across generations

• Husbands and partners who want to better understand and support the women they love

• Readers interested in faith, culture, and identity in food and family life

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Available Formats

Hardcover •Paperback -  E-Book - 

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The first 100 pre-orders placed directly through this website will receive a personally signed copy from Dr. Adwoa.

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