I really love how you described the importance of your presence as a Mother for your children. In so many ways, I notice how little acknowledgment is given to the powerful wisdom our children receive in relationship to Mothers. The initiation INTO Mother is a death of what was, a surrender to what is Becoming. It is part of what directs our devotion to our children, refining our unique medicine to be shared and received within these most powerful relationships. Motherhood as alchemy, death as alchemy.
Thank you so much for saying that. It was hard to write this without feeling the need to justify it, as if it wouldn't be perfectly normal and healthy for my children to deeply grieve if they lost me, and for me to know that and to worry about what their lives would look like without me. Death and motherhood are absolutely fundamental changes, and I think I am a better parent for considering what I'm leaving behind and how I will be remembered.
Isn't it amazing that somehow we have internalized a need to justify truth? Yet I witness the power of Voice dissolving that invisible tether to external narratives molded specifically to distort our inner knowing. A story for another day haha!
Death is a powerful subject, contemplation, experience... I appreciate what you have shared here, especially can relate around being a mother with children. Oh how concerned I was with this when my children were young! However, now growing elder, my feelings around death have changed. Maybe its just as simple as I have made it to this time of life. Yet, in many ways I feel as if my life is just beginning. Done with menopause and all the hormones, there is a deeper relaxation into living it! Thanks A. for your share. Also a recommendation, maybe you have already read this,, I bring this forward because this book changed everything for me around death. It is called, Die Wise, by Stephen Jenkinson
I honour your fear today, and am so thankful you’ve showed up here to share it.
I had a quarter life crisis a couple years back, after my sister passed from cancer, and it really messed with me to think about my family living without me. I know they would become fine eventually, as I am doing my best to build resiliency into my children, but what about the ways I would miss them? Would I be able to watch from somewhere to know how they turn out? Or is that it, I’m just gone? It helps my heart to view death as a transition -- to what, I won’t know til I get there.
Thank you for sharing that with me. It's such a hard thing to face the unknown. I go back and forth with the same questions, and I hope that when the time comes, we will all find some peace, however that might look.
I really love how you described the importance of your presence as a Mother for your children. In so many ways, I notice how little acknowledgment is given to the powerful wisdom our children receive in relationship to Mothers. The initiation INTO Mother is a death of what was, a surrender to what is Becoming. It is part of what directs our devotion to our children, refining our unique medicine to be shared and received within these most powerful relationships. Motherhood as alchemy, death as alchemy.
Thank you so much for saying that. It was hard to write this without feeling the need to justify it, as if it wouldn't be perfectly normal and healthy for my children to deeply grieve if they lost me, and for me to know that and to worry about what their lives would look like without me. Death and motherhood are absolutely fundamental changes, and I think I am a better parent for considering what I'm leaving behind and how I will be remembered.
Isn't it amazing that somehow we have internalized a need to justify truth? Yet I witness the power of Voice dissolving that invisible tether to external narratives molded specifically to distort our inner knowing. A story for another day haha!
Absolutely!
Death is a powerful subject, contemplation, experience... I appreciate what you have shared here, especially can relate around being a mother with children. Oh how concerned I was with this when my children were young! However, now growing elder, my feelings around death have changed. Maybe its just as simple as I have made it to this time of life. Yet, in many ways I feel as if my life is just beginning. Done with menopause and all the hormones, there is a deeper relaxation into living it! Thanks A. for your share. Also a recommendation, maybe you have already read this,, I bring this forward because this book changed everything for me around death. It is called, Die Wise, by Stephen Jenkinson
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I will add it to my list!
Beautiful poem, I love the simplicity of the wording and how much it conveys
Thank you so much!
I honour your fear today, and am so thankful you’ve showed up here to share it.
I had a quarter life crisis a couple years back, after my sister passed from cancer, and it really messed with me to think about my family living without me. I know they would become fine eventually, as I am doing my best to build resiliency into my children, but what about the ways I would miss them? Would I be able to watch from somewhere to know how they turn out? Or is that it, I’m just gone? It helps my heart to view death as a transition -- to what, I won’t know til I get there.
Thank you for sharing that with me. It's such a hard thing to face the unknown. I go back and forth with the same questions, and I hope that when the time comes, we will all find some peace, however that might look.