Hey beautiful Reader 💛

I know Mother’s Day can be a hard, tender day for many of us.

Maybe you never got to know your mother.
Maybe your mother was difficult or even harmful.
Maybe she left, or maybe you’ve lost her.
Maybe you’re grieving the motherhood experience you wish you’d had — or the chance to be a mother yourself.

If that’s you today, I want to offer you something that’s helped me:
​Motherhood isn’t just a person. It’s a presence. A community we can build.

✨ Mother Nature is here to soothe and hold you.
✨ Mother Time is here to heal and teach you.
✨ Chosen mothers (friends, mentors, healers) surround us, even in unexpected places.

I’ve been mothered by my coach Maggie — a woman whose wisdom and love have touched me in ways only a mother can. And I’ve also felt mothered by women I’ve never met: Esther Perel, Byron Katie, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert — their words and teachings have reached deep parts of me.

We can create the nurturing, wise, loving community we need — with the people we know and with the teachers we follow.

So if you’re feeling lonely today, aching for a kind of love you’ve longed for, please hear this: We are all each other’s mothers. You are not alone.

This is my view of Mother’s Day — it may not be yours, and that’s okay. But if it feels comforting, I invite you to try it on.

With so much love,
Amanda 💛

P.S. If this touched you, hit reply. I’d love to know you’re out there and hold space for you today.