Mothering Our Mourning

Words from M0M

M0M, Mothering Our Mourning, has a zero in the center. It is the things that won’t be.  It is the things we grow from.  Who

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A Letter to My Love

My Love ~   The marking of Fathers day on the calendar reminds me afresh that you are worthy to have a whole day designated

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The Rainbow of Grief

Grief is not always ash gray or even midnight blue. In the bereavement community, there is often talk about “rainbow babies” – babies born subsequently to

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Rainbow Fatigue

There’s a point I hope to share with you,  but there’s a tiny bit of a backstory to get to where I’m wanting to take you.

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Facing the Mirror

Shared by: Jessica Facing the Mirror: Gaining back my Sexuality after loss I wanted to share with you a subject not covered very often, but

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Both On My Heart

Shared by: Erin Mothering your mourning while mothering your “twinless twin” is HARD.  It is a delicate dance of sorrow and joy. Here is Grace

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Waiting to Exhale

Pregnancy after loss is often called a “rainbow pregnancy”, although you might not see the color just yet. It can feel quite a lot like “Please,

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From the Chasm

I am in a chasm right now.  I have been sinking into it for months. It began, I believed, by an inappropriate growing of my

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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