Grieving Daughters Club

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Hi,
I have recently created Grieving Daughters Club to support women who are grieving a parent. Its the club no one wants to be in (lets be honest) but lots of us are. For background, I lost my mum when I was 25, 17 years ago today. It destroyed me and changed the course of my life. She raised me on her own since I was 3 and she meant the world to me. Since her loss I re trained as a counsellor and have helped many women work through their grief. I also lost my dad in my 30s. I have created a free guide here for women https://grievingdaughtersclub.co.uk/10-ways I hope you find it useful. For those of you grieving a parent there is also a facebook group for women (uk based) which you can join here (link in the guide too) or find me over on instagram having real conversations about grief:

Please do reach out, I know how it feels to be where you are.

What a wonderfully positive thing for you to have done when you have been grieving the loss of your mum. You were so young to lose your mum. Must've been so difficult for you to come to terms with. I'm 55 and was lucky to have my mum until March this year.

Thank you for posting this. I will take a read.

I’m interested in being a part of this. I’m at work now so I’ll read through later this evening.

I lost my Mum in March. I found her, she was only 57 and it was very sudden and unexpected. I was 23 weeks pregnant when I found her.
I’m now 35 weeks pregnant and I can’t imagine having my baby without my Mum. I need her so much.
I feel like I’m surrounded by people who don’t understand.
I can’t grieve yet because every time it overwhelms me I get stomach cramps and I know I can hear my Mum saying “you need to calm down, you need to think of the baby”.
All I can think about is my Mum.

Channellingsophistication - yes its been very difficult.

PopThatBench- this sounds so tough. My sister was 8 months pregnant when my mum died and she found it so hard to grieve whilst pregnant. You want to do all you can to protect your unborn child but equally you feel awful because you have lost your mum and you want to process that. It's so complicated. I just want to give you some reassurances that I know it is awful for you right now but my niece turns 17 next month and gave my sister so much focus over the years of her grieving (and was such a bright light amongst the grief). I guess my point is it wont always be this s*it, it will change. Do track me down via the above as I am sure we have other women that can relate. Sending hugs