03/14/2026
Moms: The healthcare system prepares your child's body for surgery. But nobody prepares YOU for what comes after.
Not for watching your child in pain and being unable to stop it.
Not for the moment they come home different—angry, withdrawn, shutting you out.
Not for the guilt, the fear, the trauma you're quietly carrying while everyone asks how your child is doing.
Nobody asks how YOU are doing.
I sat down with Shelley Freeman MS LCMHC—a certified EMDR therapist who has spent 20 years helping mothers heal from medical trauma—for the most honest, raw conversation I've ever had about what really happens when a child goes through surgery.
Not just to the child.
To the mother too.
This conversation will help you understand:
Why your child might be masking their pain to protect you—and what to do about it
Why the stress you feel in hospital is affecting your child more than you know
Why talk therapy probably isn't working—and what actually does
Why your child's anger toward you after surgery isn't your fault
And why it is never, ever too late to repair your relationship with your child.
This is the conversation the healthcare system should be having with every mother. But isn't.
Watch the full interview at the link below.
https://youtu.be/hFHTMe_1Mgs?si=3CC1PtZcbIpp3ajo
Share this with every mother you know whose child has been through surgery. This could change everything for both of them.
Drop a 💛 if you needed someone to finally talk about this.
