For Those Missing a Mother This Mother’s Day

As Mother’s Day approaches, the world seems to fill with images of celebration—flowers, brunches, phone calls filled with laughter. But for many, this day carries a different weight.

You might be grieving the loss of a mother you deeply loved. The ache of her absence is tender and ever-present, especially during these milestone days.
Or perhaps you’re grieving the mother you longed for—the one who couldn’t love you in the way you needed, the one who wasn't safe, or who simply wasn’t able to meet you in your fullness.

Both are grief.
Both deserve gentleness.
Both are real.

At Rosebud Woman, we hold space for the full spectrum of mother loss—the loss of her presence, the loss of possibility, the loss of a lineage you may have hoped to heal. This grief is not linear, and it does not expire with time.

If this Sunday feels complicated or heavy, know that you’re not alone.
You are allowed to make space for sorrow, for remembrance, for rage or relief—for whatever is true for you.

Here are a few ways you might honor your heart this weekend:

• Light a candle and say her name.
• Write a letter—maybe one of thanks, maybe one of truth.
• Take a walk in silence and let the earth hold your grief.
• Reach out to someone who can meet you in the complexity.

We see you.
We honor your story.
We send you love in all its forms.

With love,

The Rosebud Woman team

“The Quiet Chair”

by Mary Oliver

There is a chair that no one moves,
A coffee cup that still approves
The morning light across the sill,
Though hands that held it now are still.

The air is thick with things unsaid,
The dreams you carried, softly shed.
We speak to shadows, to the wind—
To all the ways you might have been.

But in the ache, a whisper grows:
Grief is love with nowhere to go.
So here you stay—in scent and song,
In all that made us feel you strong.