Mother’s Day and Loss: Finding Comfort in Difficult Times

Mother’s Day isn’t always soft pastels and happy family lunches. For some, it’s a day that hurts—a day that highlights what’s missing, what’s gone, what will never be.

If you’ve lost your mum, if you’ve lost a child, if motherhood hasn’t happened in the way you dreamed, this day can feel like a wound that everyone else seems to celebrate around you.

Maybe you avoid the shops in the weeks leading up to it, not wanting to see the cards that aren’t for you, the gifts you won’t be buying or receiving. Maybe you scroll past the social media posts, unable to bear the smiling pictures, the gratitude-filled captions that sting in their innocence. Maybe you pretend it’s just another day, pushing the grief down because what else can you do?

But grief doesn’t care about dates. It doesn’t pause because the world expects you to celebrate. And if this day brings up pain, know that you’re not alone.

The Weight of Loss

Losing a mother can feel like losing the foundation beneath you. The person who made you feel safe, who knew how to comfort you, who loved you in a way no one else ever will. Or maybe your relationship with her was complicated, and now you’re left with emotions you don’t even know how to name. Regret, relief, sadness, longing—it’s all valid.

Losing a child… there are no words that can make sense of that pain. A love that had nowhere to go. A future that should have been. A loss that doesn’t follow a timeline or a set of neat, predictable emotions. Maybe the world expects you to be “better” by now, but you know that’s not how grief works.

And if you’re someone who always wanted to be a mother but life didn’t unfold that way, Mother’s Day can be its own kind of quiet heartbreak. An ache for something that never was.

How Hypnotherapy Can Help

Grief isn’t something to be “fixed.” It’s something to be carried. But sometimes, that weight feels unbearable. Hypnotherapy doesn’t take the pain away, but it can help you find ways to sit with it, to breathe through it, to let it be there without drowning in it.

I offer 1:1 hypnotherapy sessions in Burton-on-Trent, supporting those navigating grief, loss, and difficult emotions. My sessions are a safe, non-judgmental space where you can begin to:

• Create a space for your grief—a place where you can honour the love that still exists, without pushing the pain away.
• Process emotions that feel too big—whether it’s sadness, guilt, anger, or the exhaustion of holding it all in.
• Find moments of peace—even in the heaviness, even in the heartbreak.

If Mother’s Day is hard for you, please know that you don’t have to carry this alone. There is space for your grief, your love, your memories. And if you ever need support, I offer hypnotherapy in Burton-on-Trent to help you through the difficult days.

📍 Find out more about my 1:1 sessions contact me for a free consultation.

March 2025