Honoring and Celebrating All Women Everywhere on Mother's Day

Photo by Molly

Honoring and Celebrating All  

Women Everywhere 

on Mother's Day

Today I am thinking of Marita, Arlyne, Rubi, and Alli — each loving mothers to our beautiful grandchildren. And I am thinking of other family and many beloved friends near and far and wishing all a beautiful and blessed Mother's Day.

I am also remembering and honoring my mother and grandmothers and ancestors. And I extend my deep caring and love to all the mothers of all the species everywhere and to our Earth Mother.

This day can be one of both celebration and gratitude and love and also one of pain and loss. Throughout most of my adult life, I spent tortured minutes every year standing in the store aisle in front of Mother's Day cards trying not to cry. My experience was one of wading through countless cards that did not mirror my incredibly painful and traumatic experience with my own mother who — up until the miracle of her partial awakening over the last seven years of her life — was imprisoned in her narcissistic illness. I honor and bless these women for whom this day is a reminder not of mother love, but of mother loss.

There are also the mothers who have endured the unbearable death of a child. I honor and again bless these women and the unfathomable loss that they have experienced. May there be gradual healing over time and may they be held with the deepest compassionate, wise, tender, and loving support over all the years that follow their great loss. (An excellent resource is Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore: https://www.amazon.com/Bearing-Unbearable-Love-Heartbreaking-Grief/dp/1614292965.)

Mother's Day, to me, is also a day to honor and celebrate all women everywhere. Many of us birth children and many of us do not. That said, there are countless ways in which women give birth — to beauty, courage, creativity, hope, and inspiration; to healing and transforming ancestral and cultural trauma; to activism and generosity and passion and peace; to gratitude and kindness and wisdom and love.

I also acknowledge on this day that there are many women who, for so many different reasons, have not been able to find their way out of the trauma and suffering and legacy burdens that they have absorbed in their lifetimes. May we also hold with compassion and tenderness these women and the suffering that they endure.

Within all women everywhere is the Sacred embodiment of the many gifts of the Divine Feminine. On this Mother's Day may we reach out with heartfelt caring and compassion and love to all women everywhere. All can be honored. All can be blessed.

With love,

💗

Molly