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Mother.
A word that can hold so much.
For some, mother is a place of love, safety and belonging. For others, it can hold complexity, longing, absence, rupture or pain.
Our relationship with mother can shape so much of who we become — how we love, how we nurture, how we receive, how we care for ourselves, and how we understand what it means to belong.
And sometimes, grief lives here too.
This gentle online Grief Circle is an invitation to explore the many faces of mother and motherhood.
Perhaps you are grieving your own mother, whether she has died or is no longer part of your life in the way you wished.
Perhaps you are grieving the mother you needed but never had.
Perhaps you are grieving a child, a pregnancy, a baby, or the motherhood you imagined your life would hold.
Perhaps you are navigating your own motherhood and discovering that becoming a mother has brought old grief, tenderness or wounds to the surface.
Or perhaps you are simply carrying something around the word mother that you have never had space to speak.
There is no one way to experience mother.
Through gentle sharing, guided meditation, reflection and simple ritual, we will create space to honour the mothers who have shaped us, the mothers we have become, the mothers we have lost, and the parts of ourselves that still long to be mothered.
We may explore:
What does mother mean to me?
What have I received, and what have I longed for?
What am I grieving?
What parts of myself am I learning to mother now?
What might it mean to offer myself the tenderness I have needed?
This is not a space for perfect mothers or perfect stories.
It is a space for the truth.
For love and loss.
For tenderness and anger.
For gratitude and longing.
For what was given, what was missing, and what we are still learning to give ourselves.
You do not need to have the right words.
You do not need to share anything you don't wish to.
You do not need to have experienced bereavement to belong here.
Come exactly as you are.
Together, we will make space for the complicated, beautiful and sometimes painful landscape of mother — and for the possibility that, even through grief, we can begin to become a safe and loving mother to ourselves.
You are warmly welcome.
Mother.
A word that can hold so much.
For some, mother is a place of love, safety and belonging. For others, it can hold complexity, longing, absence, rupture or pain.
Our relationship with mother can shape so much of who we become — how we love, how we nurture, how we receive, how we care for ourselves, and how we understand what it means to belong.
And sometimes, grief lives here too.
This gentle online Grief Circle is an invitation to explore the many faces of mother and motherhood.
Perhaps you are grieving your own mother, whether she has died or is no longer part of your life in the way you wished.
Perhaps you are grieving the mother you needed but never had.
Perhaps you are grieving a child, a pregnancy, a baby, or the motherhood you imagined your life would hold.
Perhaps you are navigating your own motherhood and discovering that becoming a mother has brought old grief, tenderness or wounds to the surface.
Or perhaps you are simply carrying something around the word mother that you have never had space to speak.
There is no one way to experience mother.
Through gentle sharing, guided meditation, reflection and simple ritual, we will create space to honour the mothers who have shaped us, the mothers we have become, the mothers we have lost, and the parts of ourselves that still long to be mothered.
We may explore:
What does mother mean to me?
What have I received, and what have I longed for?
What am I grieving?
What parts of myself am I learning to mother now?
What might it mean to offer myself the tenderness I have needed?
This is not a space for perfect mothers or perfect stories.
It is a space for the truth.
For love and loss.
For tenderness and anger.
For gratitude and longing.
For what was given, what was missing, and what we are still learning to give ourselves.
You do not need to have the right words.
You do not need to share anything you don't wish to.
You do not need to have experienced bereavement to belong here.
Come exactly as you are.
Together, we will make space for the complicated, beautiful and sometimes painful landscape of mother — and for the possibility that, even through grief, we can begin to become a safe and loving mother to ourselves.
You are warmly welcome.