{"id":960,"date":"2015-08-10T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:06:34","slug":"mothers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/mothers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-961 size-large\" title=\"Mothers Together\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether-714x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mothers Together Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops mothers walking a labyrinth in the woods at Wiawaka Holiday House in Lake George.\" width=\"625\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether-624x895.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MothersTogether.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>We are mothers healing together, <a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/mothers-healing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returning<\/a> from our retreat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiawaka.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiawaka Holiday House<\/a> in Lake George, renewed and fortified. We are a mighty bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Do not tell us to move on or get over our loss. Listen to our stories rather than try to give us advice. In different ways, we carry our children who died. They go with us into our future and inspire us to keep dreaming and tend to new endeavors in their honor.<\/p>\n<p>If you see us <a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/singing-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singing to the moon<\/a>, hooting with the steamboat Minnie-Ha-Ha, doing yoga in the woods, wearing our children\u2019s clothes, sniffing summer blooms, relinquishing our private storms to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsnow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reiki<\/a>, laughing and crying simultaneously, singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicbids.com\/band\/ellenbindmanhicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our daughters&#8217; songs<\/a>, throwing pebbles into the lake, holding hands with thumbs facing left, looking for signs from angels, walking labyrinths while ringing bells &#8230; do not think we are mad. We are simply living our lives \u2013 for two, maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you do to keep alive the memory of a lost loved one? How has your loved one inspired you to change your life?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are mothers healing together, returning from our retreat at Wiawaka Holiday House in Lake George, renewed and fortified. We are a mighty bunch. Do not tell us to move on or get over our loss. Listen to our stories rather than try to give us advice. In different ways, we carry our children who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[213,216,212,579,582,580,581,219],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-bereaved-mothers","tag-honor-lost-child","tag-mothers-healing-together","tag-mothers-retreat","tag-mothers-together","tag-signs-from-angels","tag-walking-labyrinths","tag-women-helping-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}