Stories - To be a mother is to feel another mother’s pain. To look at the mother struggling with the child having a tantrum on the supermarket floor is to feel her shame within our own body. It’s to want to give her a nod of solidarity or a hug. To see the mother who's watching her child fail is to feel her defeat within our own body. Because we know how connected she is to her child—how she feels every goal missed—and we give her our hand for comfort.
To hear about the mother with a sick child is to feel her grief and sadness within our own body. We cry for her and carry it with us until our head hits the pillow. To talk to a mother whose kid has special needs is to feel her struggle within our own body. Our heart breaks as we pull resources from our own experience or a friend's experience to give her some reassurance that "it will be okay.”
Because we can relate.
We see ourselves in 𝘩𝘦𝘳.
We have been through similar things.
And even if we haven’t gone through them personally,
we have one big thing in common that makes us understand her pain:
𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.
To be a mother is to feel another mother’s pain.
And for that, the bond between mothers is unbreakable (*)
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