Mom: First Mother’s Day Without Her– Healing & Growth
My mom loved Mother’s Day. It was a day when all four of us told her how much we appreciated and loved her, and named the special qualities that were so important to us in our lives. Mom kept her mother’s day cards on her bedside table for months. She was very bright, had a quick wit (and tongue!) and a deep interest in the world, especially in spirituality and the arts.
Mom endured much in her life, including losing both of her parents before she was 15, being sent to a Catholic boarding school for girls in the coldest part of Canada, while her younger sister managed to wheedle out and go back home. She stayed and did the right thing. After multiple degrees, 4 children and a difficult divorce, mom married at 73 to the love of her life. She and Tom led workshops on spirituality and poetry until their early 90’s.
Mom had friends that transcended the generations, and taught me the value of those friendships. When she almost died three years ago from coronary heart disease, she and I cleared up the past, and moved into the most intimate stage of our relationship. Like all of us, mom had her shadow, but it seems much less obvious to me now that she’s gone, I’m so lucky to be able to focus on her gifts and bright qualities.
When Howard and I exited our business in 2018, Mom kept asking ‘what was my next?’, how was I going to keep bringing my gifts to the world? I hadn’t even thought about it, and she kept gently raising it. Mom was present by video to the closing of Queens 1 and 2, and was so delighted with this new body of work. She affirmed that this was my path forward; that meant the world to me.
For the last two nights, I’d been pestered with a vision to hold a mother/daughter workshop. There’s no better way for me to honor mom, and the relationship we created especially in her later years, than to offer sacred space for mothers and daughters to come together and sit in circle together for a weekend.
SO. You and your daughter(s), daughter-in-law, mother, or whomever wants to sit in this sacred space with you, are invited to explore and identify how the divine feminine is expressed in you both. Through this we can connect with our true nature, allowing us access to our compassion, forgiveness, and the co-creation of our relationship.
The intention is to heal the transgenerational traumas and deep-rooted patterns that can be passed down in mitochondrial DNA between women, and to clear the path forward for a profoundly mutual and grace-filled relationship. Please let me know if you’re interested. As soon as I have 5 pairs (or trios!), we’ll work together to find a date that works for all in early 2025. Pricing and pre-work to follow. With great respect and love, from my mom and me.
Leslie
Note: Right now this program is open to pairs where one participant has been through the Rewiring Together program. If you’d like to register, there are 3 more dates open in 2024: Sept 13-15, Sept 20-22, and Oct 4-6. Go to www.rewiringtogether.org to register!
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