{"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":"

\"Mothers<\/a>We are mothers healing together, returning<\/a> from our retreat at Wiawaka Holiday House<\/a> in Lake George, renewed and fortified. We are a mighty bunch.<\/p>\n

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

If you see us 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 reiki<\/a>, laughing and crying simultaneously, singing our daughters’ songs<\/a>, throwing pebbles into the lake, holding hands with thumbs facing left, looking for signs from angels, walking labyrinths while ringing bells … do not think we are mad. We are simply living our lives \u2013 for two, maybe more.<\/p>\n

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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":"

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 […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t