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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Grief and Motherless Daughter Sources

I don't claim that this is anywhere near an exhaustive list, especially since I just started it, but here are some sites that might be useful.

Read Hope Edelman's book, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, which is one of the first things that made me feel like I was not alone. I have not even read that much of it, but the parts I did read really resonated with me and were useful:
http://www.hopeedelman.com/books-motherlessdaughters-edelman.htm

Also in the back of this book are people to contact for support groups in your area. I imagine the website has something similar.

Random article: "Help for Motherless Daughters: Experts say motherless daughters can cope by making a lifelong connection with their departed mom."This is an interesting article about motherless daughters with a focus on Ms. Edelman's book that talks about how the whole grieve for one year concept is crap, and how grief is ever-changing and can be part of establishing a new relationship with your dead mother:

http://women.webmd.com/features/help-for-motherless-daughters

The other thing that made me feel less alone was going to a Motherless Daughters Meet Up Group. I would try Meet Up, they have groups in major cities, or you could start one. For me, it felt amazing to sit around and say things out loud to these women, like my friends just do not get it at all, and they were saying the same things that I was and it made me feel almost as if all my hairs were standing on end. Here is a list from Meet Up of all the groups in the U.S.:

http://motherlessdaug.meetup.com/all/


Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/Motherless-Daughters-153858391294874/timeline/


Random article on being a motherless daughter on Mother's day:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeryl-brunner/mothers-day-grief_b_1466872.html




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