This is for the women...a Mother's Day Tribute

My whole life I dreamed of having my own children, building a family, and taking the journey of sacred motherhood. At 42 that has still not happened for me and I still hold that vision for myself. That it is possible. And on this Mother’s Day I reflect on all the ways I’ve been a caregiver and nurturing presence to others. The many students I’ve coached and mentored over the years. The projects I birthed and brought to life. The gardens I’ve grown, cultivated, watered, and loved. The women who I’ve coached and mentored to love themselves fully and come to a place of awakening and wholeness within themselves. The loving touch I’ve offered to others in their time of grief. The families I’ve coached and supported to bring babies into the world. The ways I cared for myself grandmother, especially in her last moments of life here on earth.

I also think of the ways I’ve mothered and cared for myself. The seeds I’ve planted of my own dreams and nourished over the years. The courage I’ve tapped into to build a full, beautiful life despite the obstacles and trauma I’ve experienced. The ways I’ve held myself on the dark days and in times of grief. The kind and loving words I give myself when I’m not feeling 100%. The ways I adorn and honor myself and my body.

I reflect on the ways other women and this world has nourished, cared for, loved me. I think of all the women who stood before me, rooted for me, showed me the way, inspired me. I think of my mother and grandmother who faced so much hardship yet rose back up each time. I am inspired by the community of women who surround me, hold me during heartbreak, career shifts, or when I get I’ve lost my way.

Sometimes we feel we’re alone on this journey and we can be reminded that we’re not. Today let’s celebrate all the ways we’ve been nourished, cared for, given back, been of service, received and given love.

This is for the women who today may feel they are not enough. Who feel the immense pain of the mother wound. Who wish to be a mother. Who choose not to birth a child. This is for the women who don’t know their birth mothers or who have conflicted, traumatic, tense relationships with their mothers. This is for all the women in this world today. ⁣

Shower yourself with love today. Let yourself be showered with love today. Know that you are enough and worthy of this life, whatever that looks like right now. You are loved. You are love.