This fact sheet provides guidance around what to consider when preparing children for life without mum.
We understand that this can be a tough time and that it is sometimes difficult to find the right words or know how to help. This fact sheet provides some practical ways you can better support someone you know who has lost their mother.
We understand that this can be a tough time and that it is sometimes difficult to find the right words or know how to help. This fact sheet provides some practical ways you can better support someone you know who has lost their mother.
Memories of Mum is a journal aimed at supporting children aged 4+ who have experienced mother loss. It helps to make sense of their grief and loss while creating a personalised memoir.
It can help:
Whilst our journals are free, we welcome donations where possible so that we can continue to provide this valuable resource to children whose mothers have died.
To obtain a journal(s) for a young person and/or to make a donation, please email us below and provide us with the following information:
Once we’ve received your information, we’ll be in touch to confirm we’ve sent the journal to you!
Kellie wanted to ask her mother so many questions while she still could. When you don't go a day without speaking to someone you love, how do you say goodbye forever? It didn't bear thinking about.
When Pamela Curtain is diagnosed with cancer, her family plead with her to try everything that might give them more time. She reluctantly agrees, but on one condition. Life goes on because it has to and so does the weekly family dinner with wine and loud sibling banter.
Through stories, research, life tips, and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face. Here she debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, 'happy' life, replacing it with the skills and tools to help us experience and witness the pain of loss in ourselves and others.
In 'Without My Mum', Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer. She invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking and others heartwarming, yet is ultimately comforting and inspiring. With genuine warmth and candor, Leigh tells of her transformative passage through devastating grief to rediscover and redefine her own identity.
Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, the author's personal story of losing her mother, recent research in grief and psychology, and with a new afterword exploring how the legacy of mother loss shifts with the passage of time, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.
Through stories, research, life tips, and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face. Here she debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, 'happy' life, replacing it with the skills and tools to help us experience and witness the pain of loss in ourselves and others.
In 'Without My Mum', Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer. She invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking and others heartwarming, yet is ultimately comforting and inspiring. With genuine warmth and candor, Leigh tells of her transformative passage through devastating grief to rediscover and redefine her own identity.
The Motherless Daughters private support group on Facebook is a safe space for over thousands of daughters to engage in open conversation and support each other as they cope with grief and lifes ongoing journey without mum.
