Letters of Love: Navigating the Tenderness of Mother’s Day (S16E7)

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Depending on the stories we each carry, Mother’s Day can stir deep and complicated emotions. 

In this tender episode, I share that I was recently invited to write an article for The Gloss on the aspects of Mother's Day, that don't always get acknowledged. 

It inspired this episode and I include an invitation to write an unsent letter as a way of exploring the truth of your relationship with your mother, whatever shape that truth takes.

This isn’t about sentimentality or simplifying what may be layered with loss, distance, confusion or grief. Instead, it’s an act of profound compassion - a way to gently honour what lives within you.

I share guidance from Letters of Love, reflections from my own experience of writing to my mother, and finish with a piece from My Darling Girl - a reminder that, no matter what our story has been, we can learn to be a loving presence for ourselves.

If this day feels tender for you -  or for someone you love - I hope this episode offers a soft place to land.

BOOKS

Letters of Love - a journaling practice for wisdom & connection, published by Inner Work Project, available everywhere

My darling girl, vol. 1, only available direct from Henny Flynn

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