What Our Mothers Taught US

I have been missing my mom a great deal lately. She transitioned in March of 2018, and not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought of her. But this month feels different. Her presence has been especially close.

I’ve been thinking about the things she taught me, not only through her words, but through the way she lived.

Some of those lessons were beautiful: resilience, loyalty, devotion to family, perseverance. But some of what I absorbed no longer serves me. The biggest ones are a scarcity mindset and a deep feeling that somehow I don’t matter as much as everyone else.