15/03/2026
Mother’s Day can be a complicated landscape for many in our community. For some, it arrives with flowers and breakfast trays. For others, it carries quiet spaces, memories, unanswered calls, or relationships that ache in ways words struggle to hold.
Today, we want to speak gently to every kind of mother
and to every person carrying a mother-shaped space in their heart.
If today brings joy, we hope you can savour those moments.
If it brings tenderness or pain, you are not alone in that either.
To the mothers who have lost their children,
and to the children who have lost their mothers to addiction,
we hold you in compassion today. Love does not disappear with loss. It often lives on quietly in memories, lessons carried forward, and in the strength it takes to keep going.
To the mothers who are separated from their children right now whether through circumstance, recovery, or the painful distance addiction can create, we recognise how heavy that can feel. Even when bridges feel broken, the capacity for love and healing remains. Healing rarely follows a straight line, and every step toward health and hope matters.
To the mothers holding families together while a partner’s addiction shakes the ground beneath them,
the ones quietly managing the bills, the school runs, the worry, the late-night tears, we see the courage it takes to keep showing up. That quiet perseverance deserves care and compassion too.
To the mothers who won’t receive cards, flowers, or thank-yous today, who may feel unseen or alone, please know that your care and effort matter deeply. The love you give shapes lives in ways that may not always be visible, but its roots run deep.
And to those whose mothers are no longer here, or whose relationships with their mothers were complicated or painful, today may bring many different feelings. Grief, relief, love, anger, longing… all of it belongs.
Mother’s Day is not one story.
It is thousands.
Wherever you find yourself in that story today, you belong here.
If today feels heavy, perhaps this is a moment to offer yourself a little extra kindness. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is simply stay present with what is here, one gentle step at a time.
And if today brings even the smallest moment of warmth, a memory, a laugh, a quiet cup of tea, a child’s smile, you might allow yourself to receive it fully.
From all of us to all of you: we see you, we honour you, and we are walking this path together. 🌼
