Mother’s Day After Child Loss: If I’m Telling the Truth
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Mother’s Day after child loss can feel impossibly complicated. In this episode of Down the Rabbit Hole, Melissa speaks honestly about the layered reality of motherhood after suicide loss—the grief, the love, changing family dynamics, and the truth that this day never feels the same again.
💜 In this episode:
Why Mother’s Day changes forever after child loss
The duality of gratitude and grief
How later grief lands differently than the early years
Navigating complicated family relationships after loss
Giving yourself permission to move through the day gently
Why you are still a mother—always
Mother’s Day, If I’m Telling the Truth
Mother’s Day can feel brutal.
Not because I’m not grateful
to be a mother,
but because there is no clean way
to hold love and loss
in the same pair of hands.
There is no simple way
to celebrate motherhood
when one of your children is gone,
or far away,
or when the shape of your family
has changed in ways
you never would have chosen.
The world wants to make this day
about flowers and smiles
and neat little moments of gratitude.
But grief does not care
what day it is.
It rises where it rises.
And sometimes it rises here.
If I’m telling the truth,
there are years I want to lean in
and years I want to hide.
Years I want to say your name
all day long,
and years I can barely breathe
through the weight of missing you.
And still—
I am your mother.
I am your mother
in the ache,
in the remembering,
in the longing,
in the love that did not leave
when you did.
I am your mother
when this day feels sacred,
and when it feels cruel.
When I feel grateful.
When I feel shattered.
When I want to celebrate,
and when I want to disappear.
So maybe this day
doesn’t need to be beautiful.
Maybe it just needs to be honest.
Maybe it looks like a candle,
a tear,
a whispered name,
a quiet no,
a memory I let myself keep touching.
Maybe honoring this day
just means telling the truth:
I love deeply.
I grieve deeply.
I am still a mother.
And that is enough.
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