Loss + Motherhood Healing

There is a kind of grief that doesn't leave.

It doesn't stay loud forever… but it becomes part of the landscape of who you are.

I lost my mother, my best friend, my favorite person — and I have carried that absence into every season since.

And then something unexpected happened.

I became a mother.

Motherhood Cracks You Open

Motherhood has a way of cracking you open. It brings so much love… and it also brings the deepest longing.

There are moments I watch my children laugh, or I hold them close, and I feel her everywhere — in the tenderness, in the ache, in the quiet strength she somehow left behind.

Healing Isn't Moving On

Healing hasn't meant "moving on."

Healing has meant learning how to carry love and loss at the same time.

Some days I still want to call her. Some days I still miss her like it's the first day.

But I also believe this:

The love our mothers give us doesn't disappear. It becomes the way we mother. It becomes the softness we offer. It becomes the home we try to create.

Why This Matters

This is part of my story — and part of why I care so deeply about gentle motherhood, about wellness, about healing.

Because so many of us are mothering while still missing our own.

And we deserve tenderness too.

Always.

♡