Mother’s Day Grieving: A List of WYG Articles to Help You Cope

As Mother’s Day approaches, I wanted to offer a new piece of wisdom from our travels. Perhaps something shared with us by a reader or a personal observation from 16 years of grieving a mother that might help you with Mother’s Day grieving. And, I will say, I have several stray tidbits that may be worth writing about, but none felt right this week. 

We’ve already written so much on topics related to Mother’s Day that I think the best thing we can do is put everything together in one place to share with you. And I can promise with a large amount of certainty that, as someone who will always opine about grieving a mother (while being a mother), that we will continue to write about these topics as long as we exist. 

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• Articles Written for Mother’s Day
• Other Articles About Grieving a Mother
• Grieving a Grandparent
• Pregnancy Loss
• Articles About Remembering and Memory
• Parenting While Grieving
• Grieving a Complicated Relationship

Articles About Mother’s Day Grieving

• Mother’s Day Grief: Life Without a Mother’s Love
• A Mother’s Chorus: Grieving a Child on Mother’s Day
• A Letter to My Daughters on Mother’s Day: Mother’s Day After a Death
• Spending Mother’s Day with Ghosts: Mother’s Day Grief

Other Articles About Grieving a Mother:

• If She’ll Always Be With Me, Why Don’t I Feel Her?
• Times Like These, I Wish You Were Here
• I Am Still Your Daughter…You are Still my Mother
• After 12 Years, My Mother is Still Everywhere

Grieving a Grandparent:

• Grieving the Death of a Grandparent
• Grieving the Death of an Older Loved One

Pregnancy Loss

• Meaningful Grieving After Pregnancy Loss
• How To Talk To Children About Miscarriage and Stillbirth
• The Grief Wall: Loss of Identity After Stillbirth

Articles About Remembering and Memory

• Struggling to Remember the Past
• I Miss the Sound of Your Voice: Grieving Sensory Memory
• Mourning the Passage of Time
• Dear Daughter: Mourning Lost Memories
• Mourning the Past While Living in the Present
• The Moments that Matter: Looking at life in hindsight
• What’s Your Memory? Remembering Everyday Moments

Parenting While Grieving

• Parenting While Grieving
• Should I discuss deceased loved ones with my child?
• The Grief and Joy of Being a Mother While Grieving a Mother
• Becoming a Parent After the Death of a Parent
• Making Time for Grief During Pregnancy

Grieving a Complicated Relationship

• Grieving Someone You Didn’t Know (or Hardly Knew)
• What is ‘Found Family’?
• Grieving Someone You Didn’t Like (Because It Happens!)
• Learning A Secret After A Death
• Ambiguous Grief: Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive

New Resource Announcement: The WYG grief community

Have you heard that WYG is starting a virtual grief community? Though the doors to the community haven’t opened yet, we’re currently collecting interest via a waitlist. We’re really excited for this grief community to be up and running and see a lot of potential for discussion on a wide range of topics and in a number of different formats. Whether you consider yourself a talker and joiner, or someone who likes to listen and observe, all are welcome! Check out a few additional details and sign up for the grief community waitlist here.