When Mother's Day hurts

Mothers’ Day can be tinged with sadness and pain. For women desperately wanting to be mothers. The agonizing torment associated with assisted reproduction and infertility. Hopelessness.  Self-blame.  Isolation. Fear about an unfulfilled future. Mothers’ Day can accentuate this despair.

For women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or the later loss of a child. Mothers’ Day can be torturous.

And for women, who have lost their mothers (or other loved ones), a myriad of mixed emotions may be present whilst experiencing a ‘celebration’ of their own motherhood.

Whatever your pain on Mothers’ Day, wishing you the self-love and compassion to nurture yourself, and to allow yourself to be cared for.

With the warmest of thoughts
Dr Renée Miller
​Principal Clinical Psychologist