We have a lot to say about grief

The one thing that starting the Motherlove Project has taught me is that we have a lot to say about grief. I think that’s why I started the Project in the first place - there wasn’t anywhere for me to talk about my grief. No support groups I could find, no events in my area, no forums that I knew of. So, I decided to start my own place and see what would happen. And boy did I find my community! But that’s the part that really makes me want to work even more in 2023 to build this Project to be bigger - we have a lot to say about grief and still so few places to say it.

It’s hard for me to understand why in 2023, after almost three years of a global pandemic where millions of people have died from COVID-19, that we are still struggling, collectively to talk about our grief. We need more places, platforms, resources, communities and people with lived experience of grief to tell their stories, in their own words.

I want to build platforms that provide the biggest stage for the most number of women to tell their own stories. I want women from all over the world who have experienced the grief of losing their mother to be able to tell their stories. That’s the power of the community we’re building in the Motherlove Project. I really want to bring that energy to a physical location, where we can meet and give each other a big hug!

I would love to know your thoughts on the possibility of an in-person event. Would you be interested in attending an event? Where could we organize it? What would you want to see in an event? I’m hoping 2024 will be the year we get to come together in person. Let me know in the comments! Below, is a picture of a note that my daughter, who is 12, wrote, as she overheard a conversation I was having with someone in the grief community recently. I’m proud that she knows that I’m working to build grief awareness. She said she thought it was, in her words, “very quotable”. :)