Losing your mother is like losing your light.  I know because I lost my mother the first time when I was 11 to mental illness.  I became her care taker while coming of age.  My mother died when I was twenty-two and I have been on a healing journey ever since.  It’s one of the reasons I decided to become a counselor and work with clients who have lost their mothers.  

When we lose our mothers especially while coming of age we have to learn how to parent and mother ourselves.  Mother-loss  takes away our sense of safety, self esteem and identity in the world.  I work with motherless daughters to help them learn how to mother themselves after losing their mothers.