Tamsen Fadal

So Mother's Day is this weekend, and it made me think that we should talk about it for a little bit before it actually gets here.

So I know that for a lot of women, Sunday is not a simple day, myself included.

The world makes it look like it should be.

There's brunches, there's flowers, there's cards, there's posts everywhere of women with their moms calling them their best friends.

If that is not your reality, if your mom is gone or if your relationship with her is painful or complicated or non-existent,

you can feel incredibly alone in the middle of all this.

Like everyone else got something that you didn't.

So I really felt it was important to talk about this.

And we've talked a lot about moms and we've talked about grief on this show, but I just felt like with Mother's Day around the corner, sometimes I don't sit with it all the time and I just try to get through it and not think about it.

But I don't know, this year, maybe I'm getting older, I don't know.

So I lost my mom when I was 20.

And there are women listening to this right now whose mother is alive, but who grieve her just as much as I grieve mine who's gone because maybe she was never really there or because a relationship caused more hurt than it ever gave comfort.

Or maybe you've had to create a distance just to take care of yourself.

Whatever it is, I know grief is real and that grief counts.

And there's no ceremony for it, which can make it even harder to carry.

So this episode is one for all of us.

I wanna share what I've learned over the years about grief, about loss, about finding your way through a day when the world tells you you should be feeling one way,

but you feel completely different.

So pull up a chair, maybe you're going for a walk, whatever it is, we're gonna sit together with this for a little bit.

Again, my mom died when I was 20 years old from breast cancer.