Mother’s Day can be beautiful and painful at the same time. For some, it is flowers, phone calls, laughter, and crowded tables. For others, it is an empty chair, an unanswered number, a complicated history, or a grief that quietly returns no matter how much time has passed. Grief on Mother’s Day is not limited to losing a mother. It can also belong to: mothers who lost children daughters who never received the love they needed women longing to become mothers people grieving e

Losing my mother has been a seminal experience that has reshaped every part of my life. The grief ebbs and flows: sometimes as a quiet...