Losing a mother

Today my friend lost her mother. This is what I want to share with her…
I love you, I’m here for you and I feel your pain. Only those who have lost a parent can understand the magnitude of your loss.
Life is so precious, and death is such a thief. I’ll listen to you, hold your hand and cry with you. Take time to feel the pain of her loss, she will never leave your heart or your thoughts, she will always be apart of you. Spend time with people who love you and are there for you. Be kind to yourself. You are allowed to feel vulnerable and lost, you just lost your mother. My mother will be gone two years next month, I will forever feel both her and my father’s absence.

You will never really feel the way you did before, your heart will forever bear a scar, it changes who you are. Life just shifts into something else, a new normal.
Take it one day at a time and surround yourself with loving, compassionate people. Share stories about your mother with your children, remember the things about her that make you smile but prepare for that ache in your heart. It’s a particularly painful ache, one that you have never felt before. Even though death has torn you apart, your love for your loved one will forever live inside your heart. The pain, it just stays, you learn to live with it.
