“It is the mother’s hand that loves, comforts, redirects, and prepares us for all other relationships. When that influence is absent, everything changes.”

— Verlee Bond Young

Mother Bond: Memories of a Motherless Daughter

A true story of life on a dirt road in rural Mississippi.

Growing up without a mother can have a profound effect on daughters, regardless of their backgrounds or eventual success in life. In this new memoir, author Verlee Bond Young shares the story of her childhood following the death of her mother and how it shaped her life over the decades to come. Buy now.

Leaving Virgil Road: Legacy of a Motherless Daughter

Leaving your childhood behind and finding your strengths in the shadows.

Leaving Virgil Road is a continuation of Verlee Young’s first book, Mother Bond. Designed as a stand-alone book that can be read on its own, Virgil Road explores mother loss after the author left her childhood home for college and discovered that losing her mother at an early age was going to impact her entire adult life. Buy now.

Verlee Bond Young is an author and clinical social worker with over 40 years of experience in counseling. Many of her clients have experienced mother loss through death, abandonment, addiction, emotional abuse, physical abuse, or mental illness. She also helps adult daughters and their mothers establish new relationships.

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An experienced speaker on issues related to mother loss, good mothering, and mother-daughter conflict, Verlee is available for presentations, discussions, and book signings at conferences, events, community organizations and churches.