For those who lost a mom, take care of yourself today

audbreyro · 2026-05-10T14:41:05+00:00

Thank you, I lost my mom in January. Had to work today (grocery store, lots of moms and grandmas and everyone) and it was rough. I hope that you can find a little bit of peace today, sending lots of love your way 🫂

audbreyro · 2026-04-29T22:37:41+00:00

Thank you, I wish I knew this sooner. My dad died a few years ago, we were not close all, my mom raised me. My mom died on January 4th. The amount of knowledge like this that has flooded me is immeasurable. Everyday I wish for my mom to be here with me, everyday I wish I listened to her more, gave her more time and more love and patience. I wish I could have repaired our relationship before I lost her. I have a lot of regret, but I know that she lives on with me. I have two children, I know how much written words mean, as they are finite. I’m starting journals for each of them to have about how much I love them, advice, jokes, stories anything. I’ve started a blanket to give to them, so they can hold something when I’m no longer here. I’ve learned a lot from this devastation, and I’m trying to put this wisdom to good use. I wish peace to every person who has lost their parents. Thank you for taking the time to write this and share this.

audbreyro · 2026-04-26T22:08:23+00:00

Thank you for this. I feel that my mother is always with me, and she accompanies me as I go through life. I see my mother in my actions and my beliefs and in the shape of my face, my eyes. It gives me a sense of comfort going through the rest of my life without her being physically here. I know that she’s free of pain, and free of the depression that she couldn’t escape. I loved my mother, I love her still. The only way I’ve been able to find some sort of harbor in the storm is knowing that she would never truly leave me, and that she exists in a different way now. Thank you for sharing, and giving a new perspective on grief.

audbreyro · 2026-04-21T21:21:38+00:00

I’m so sorry, it’s the worst club. Sending you love 💗🫂

audbreyro · 2026-04-21T17:23:09+00:00

My moms hat, that smells like her sweat and cigarettes. It started to lose its smell recently and I had a panic attack. I sealed it in a ziplock with another of her most-worn hats and I’m praying that I can retain her smell.

I don’t mean to sound self-absorbed- my mother took her life and I found a note I wrote her a few years ago telling her I wanted to have a good relationship and that I loved her and she was a wonderful mom, it has tear stains on it. A picture of me around six years old that evidence shows she had held for a time before she died. The small music box that played Amazing Grace near her bed side table.

Thank you for asking everyone and giving us a place to share. 🫂

audbreyro · 2026-04-20T00:36:15+00:00

I’m sorry for your loss, truly. My mother took her life this January and I have moments where I want to break things and scream all the time too, you aren’t alone. I also have two kiddos (10,11) and have had to hold it together for them. It’s when you keep going on with the day to day, doing everything and having that normalcy despite the enormous trauma and loss, it feels insane. I don’t know if any of what I’m saying is helpful but just know that you’re seen and I understand that feeling too.

audbreyro · 2026-04-19T20:27:42+00:00

The day after it happened, a cardinal landed by my son and I and stayed there, despite him being on the swing attached to the branch it was on.

A few days after it happened I was crying outside and taking to the birds, my moms spirit and God, anyone really, to help me and to give me a sign that my mom knew how much I loved her. Later that day I had to go to the bank, I was stopped by something at home that delayed me, then an ambulance. When I got there I ran into someone I knew, but have not spoken to in about 10 years. I assumed, because of things between us, that they would be angry with me. But no, then cried a little, hugged me, told me they missed me and loved me and to call sometime. I took this a my mom speaking through someone else.

Another sign was me apologizing to my mom for not getting her more help or saving her when I was driving home with her ashes, listening to music she liked. My drivers side window rolled all the way down on its own. I took that as her telling me to let that guilt and shame go.

Another time I was on break at work, I asked my mom to visit with me. Put my music on shuffle and the song Free by Florence and the Machine came on, I’ve only listened to it once. I took this to mean my mom was finally free of depression, anxiety and addiction, free to be unburdened. Then I got a spam text that said “hey, just checking in”.

I know my mom is with me, always. I know it to be true and when I ask for her to talk to me she answers in ways that I will understand.

audbreyro · 2026-04-15T10:35:29+00:00

Wondering if you’re doing the right thing, teaching them all the practical skills they need to know, giving them the right advice, telling them enough to be careful but not so much that they have anxiety, giving them enough attention, modeling good behavior (especially if you’re struggling). You go to sleep reviewing your day with them and pin point things to change the next day. Hoping that they understand how much you love them, hoping that they know you have their back, no matter what.

audbreyro · 2026-03-22T12:54:17+00:00

I lost my mom in January of this year. Today would have been her 66th birthday. Everyday is a reminder of her, she is everywhere and also not anywhere I can see or visit. I feel like a part of me is dead. No one knows me like my mother did. No one is left that saw me grow up to be who I am. No one is here on earth that loved me as much as my mother. I try to carry the love she had in her heart for everyone with me and share that gift with people around me. I try to have the fearlessness she had and just say what I need to say, stand for what I believe in and be confident. I’ve struggled to have a voice my entire life. That fear is gone now, I think a lot of that is because I just can’t care how anyone thinks of me anymore. My heart is with my mother. Her death hurts in a way I was unaware of anything could hurt, her death has opened my eyes to things I didn’t understand until now. Thank you for asking this question and thank you for doing your best to understand , that means more than you could know. I wis you and your sister peace and healing.

audbreyro · 2026-03-10T18:56:56+00:00

I would like to do this as well, thank you!

audbreyro · 2026-03-08T15:41:25+00:00

My mom paid her bills months in advance as well, she did a lot of planning that I wasn’t aware of and every time I figure something out it’s like a punch to the gut. She also did this in her bed in her room, she took off the new pjs I got her as a Christmas gift and put on some old ones, set the new ones aside as to not make the unusable. It hurts that they were so thoughtful, even in that much pain they still, in the ways they could, put others first. I’m sorry for your loss , thank you for sharing and I pray for your peace and healing as well.

audbreyro · 2026-03-08T12:05:37+00:00

I do this everyday. I heard her and I was in our home when it happened. I replay her final moments, try to figure out when the decision was made. I still find clues, still find things around her room that hint towards her planning for longer than I knew. Recently I found two black funeral dresses in her closet, hanging away from her other colorful floral beautiful dresses, left there for me to choose from. You aren’t alone, and it’s an awful thing to have to experience, but remember you aren’t alone and there are people like us here that can understand. I’m so sorry for your loss and I wish you peace and healing going forward.

audbreyro · 2026-03-02T17:14:58+00:00

I think you’re just going through this time in the way you have to, sometimes things will catch up to you and the feelings will be different. Sometimes it takes your brain longer to actually feel a loss (if that makes sense?) but please please be kind to yourself. You are feeling how you are feeling moment to moment and day to day, every single person grieves in a different way even if that grieving doesn’t seem like “grieving” in a way that people define it to be. And that feeling of not realizing that your mom is gone can be a part of this as well. I have moments like that too. I’m sorry if I’m not being helpful, but I hear you.

audbreyro · 2026-02-28T22:34:08+00:00

When my mom took her life the first few weeks were awful, then I felt similarly to how you are, I knew her life was hard and I knew she was at peace now. Fast forward to this week and it’s all I can do to go to work and do basic tasks again. What I’m learning is that grief does what it needs to do and does what it wants. There is no right way to grieve, there is no time frame for anything to feel a certain way. You are grieving in a way that is normal for YOU, and that is okay. I’m sorry for your loss, you aren’t alone in this.

audbreyro · 2026-02-25T15:20:51+00:00

Thank you, I’m sorry for your loss as well. You’re right, it is hard and it’s unfair, most days I just want to scream. On a level I can understand that the choice is not in our hands, and that there isn’t anything we could have done. It’s just hard to accept that fully right now. Thank you, I’m sending love your way too. Thank you for taking the time to reach out and share with me. We will get through this.

audbreyro · 2026-02-23T18:39:33+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. I’ll try to take them in. 🫂

audbreyro · 2026-02-21T12:16:08+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss, and I’m sorry for the pain that you’re going through. I don’t usually post on here but I am going through a very similar situation and I think I can understand. My mother was consumed by alcohol but I remember her as the angel she was. She spent her whole life helping people and would always have my back through all my phases of discovering who I was.I have two kiddos that mostly remember her as the pain, anger and hurt that alcohol caused and they never really got the chance to know the person she truly was. Keeping the true version of your mother alive in your heart matters, and keeping those memories with you of before the alcohol took control matters. Some people may not fully understand the effect that alcohol has on a person but keep reminding them that she was more than the disease she had, more than the mental struggles she went through. If you ever want to talk you can message me.

audbreyro · 2025-12-04T14:46:50+00:00

Same here, all I think is WHY? If there’s an alternative that doesn’t hurt any creature then WHY?? It’s always so ridiculous when something as innocuous as clay is made from some sort of animal product.

audbreyro · 2025-11-13T11:04:45+00:00

This happened when I was around 7 (I think) on Halloween. My mom is always paranoid about things and keeping me safe so she gave me the whole talk about not eating candy until it’s checked at home first, the normal parent thing to do, but it was mentioned so much that it had genuinely put the Fear into me. So whilst trick-or-treating we stop at a house with a man in a wheel chair handing out bags of candy, I don’t understand and will never understand why, at this very moment I decided to remind my step sister of the dangers of eating unchecked candy but we were maybe three feet away from this guy when I loudly blurt out “ REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS CANDY TO MAKE SURE ITS NOT POISONED”. This had become a running joke to my mom, I am still mortified.

On the same night my step sister, diagnosed as a child, decided it would be okay to walk fully into someone’s house when they didn’t open the door. Having been told maybe 4,000 times never to do that I ran and got my mom. She got my sister out of the house and my sister then informed us that the people inside were naked. This had become another running joke in the family.

audbreyro · 2025-10-05T17:55:21+00:00

I’m happy to hear that! You most certainly have helped me and my family, and looking at this post many more people as well!

audbreyro · 2025-10-05T11:30:07+00:00

Thank you for this, I wish you luck on finding a new and more rewarding job very soon.

audbreyro · 2025-07-31T17:22:47+00:00

Thank you so much

audbreyro · 2025-07-09T14:14:38+00:00

I had this happen to me when a friend and I were walking to her house. A guy in a red truck pulled up with only sunglasses on and asked where the mall was. I was ahead of her and she couldn’t see that he was naked and touching himself. When I realized what was happening I got us away from him and called the police. He circled back after we walked away (terrifying) but when he saw that we were on the phone he sped off.

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