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was the first of her books I read, and it was so profound to find through these essays that I wasn't alone and validated that losing my mom was the hardest thing I'd ever experienced.
And that it's okay. Revisiting the profoundly important subject of mother loss, Letters From Motherless Daughters is a compilation of real letters written by women in response to the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters.
When Motherless Daughters was first published in, author Hope Edelmanthrough research, interviews, and personal experiencehelped women across the country deal with the pain of losing a mother.
Finally they felt free to discuss and try to understand their unique form of grief, and perhaps most importantly, they felt that they were not alone in their loss.
The overwhelming number of letters she received in response to Motherless Daughters prompted Hope Edelman to publish Letters From Motherless Daughters.
Reaffirming her precious link with motherless women across the country, Hope presents these moving, honest, and often hopeful letters, along with her own insight, and offers readers a chance to further learn from this loss.
Chapters are divided by the number of years since mother loss, and each addresses the significant issues of that stage.
Hope also includes information on starting or joining a support group, and offers suggested reading for motherless women, The words of these brave women illustrate the profound pain, the astounding strength, and the undying perseverance to live on, but never outlive the need for one's mother.
of police barricades, the razorsharp line between life and death, the unforgiving chasm I did enjoy this book and Im glad that I read it.
The first sequel to the Motherless Daughters book, It was comforting to hear others stories, I havent been interested in the several other sequels, although I might have been if my life experiences had gone differently.
I read thisyears ago when I lost my mother and it was extremely helpful in helping me through that time.
I think it would be worth another read now that some time has passed, I loved this book even more than the

first Motherless Daughters which I did love, In addition to showing the impact of mother loss, the letters help the reader to feel less alone, Beautiful and healing. Theth anniversary of my mother's death is this week, and I figured it was time to finish this book that I started last year around this time.
It is a followup to sitelink Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, which I loved and appreciated more than I could express.
In this new book, Hope Edelman compiles letters she received in theyears after Motherless Daughters was published and writes of the patterns she sees based on how long ago the writers lost their mothers.
The timelines are as follows:

Adjustment and Acceptance: The First Year
Searching for Meaning: One to Five Years
Pain Turns to Longing: Five to Ten Years
Experience Turns to Insight: Ten to Twenty Years
Lives Shaped by Loss: Twenty Years and Beyond

As noted, I fall in theyears category but was affected, in some way, by each letter in this book.
Reading letters from women who had recently lost their mothers reminded me of the shock and pain I went through in the early years.
I recalled how I adjusted to life without my mom, realizing that I was no longer the same person I had been before.
For a long time, I thought I even looked different in pictures and was surprised that others couldn't see that I wasn't who I had been before.
Now I feel as one daughter described, "The pain has never subsided completely it never will but I no longer wear it on my sleeve.
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I have completely marked up this book and Motherless Daughters and will continue to return to both as needed.
I am thankful to have discovered these and would recommend them again and again, A comforting shoulder to turn to in a very difficult time, This book consists of letters written to author Hope Edelman after her publication of Motherless Daughters, The letters are mostly from women who lost mothers as girls or teens, and are divided into segments based on the recentness the loss.
I think this is an excellent book to give teens who have lost a parent, or older women who lost a mother as a child or teen.
However, I did not find as much here for mature women grieving the loss of a mother as I did in the original Motherless Daughters.
Therefore, I recommend this book for teens struggling with the loss of a mother, and the original Motherless Daughters for older women.
My mother was disabled while I was in my's but did not pass away until much later, I was hoping to find some similar stories here of that kind of longterm loss spread out over time there weren't any here, but there are a variety of stories ranging from mother loss as a result of abandonment, accidental death or suicide, and many from those who lost mothers to cancer.
Many of the emotions are universal, but I think we all long to find others whose experiences more closely mirror our own.
Wonderful! This collection made me realize that I am not alone in my grief and people actually feel what I feel.
Each of Hope Edelman's books created break through moments for me, This one in particular made me realize that I am not by any means the only women without a mother.
I was sitting at a coffee shop imagine that : and half way through one of the letters, I forget which, I looked around the other women sitting by me and in an instant I lost my judgement, my anger, my belief that they all had what I didn't a mother.
How did I know what there stories were, I couldn't neither could they, It was a beautiful moment to let so much anger drain right out of me on the payment below, A few times a year I find myself on my living room floor sitting in front of my book shelf and rereading the letters from women who are complete strangers to me but good friends.
I am never alone in my Motherlessness, that is comforting,

This book is an emotional type of read and really touches on my heart strings,




This would be an emotional genre with words of encouragement, grief and healing, Finally afterplus years, I find out that all my longings, my fears, my dreams are shared by many others who have lost their mothers.
It was so incredibly helpful to read these letters, It helped me realize that losing a mother is never easy and that it will likely be the most profound death any woman will ever mourn.
I felt comforted that I am not alone in my grief, but was also saddened to realize that I will always miss my mother with such powerful longing.
I was a contributor to this book, using the pseudonym, Barbara, In my book, Hope Edelman can go no wrong, Presenting a broad but applicable view of motherless daughters is a nearly impossible task, but when I read her books, I often feel like they're talking right to me, about me.
I wonder if every motherless daughter gets that when they read her as well

Anyway, this is full of insightful little paragraphs from hope and thoughts/feelings from women at different stages in their motherlessness.
It was a valuable way to revisit the insights of "Motherless Daughters" without getting bogged down in that big but helpful! book.
Brilliant idea, Hope! I highly recommend this book, Here is a link to a blog post I wrote about this book andothers I recommend to those whose mothers have died.
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sitelinkHope EdelmansitelinkLetters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing It was interesting reading the personal experiences of different women who lost their mothers young.
Although all the experiences of the women in this book are very different, they originate from a shared experience the loss of their mother.

One thing I liked about this book is that each chapter was organized by different timeframes after the loss of the womens mother.
For example: chapter one includes letter written within the first year after they lost their mother, Chapter two includes letters written between one to five years after they lost their mothers, In this way, the reader can see examples of how women cope during each phase of loss,
I approve of this book and will be keeping it as a resource for the future, This is a vital companion to Motherless Daughters the letters from other readers of the book create even greater resonance for those women dealing with this loss.
Helped me to realize that each decade of my life there is a new thing to miss about not having my mom anymore.

This book let me know I am not alone, very sad. tough to read. i wanted it to be more hopeful, . . but i suppose that's too perky an attitude for a subject like this, . . I highly recommend this book to any woman who is a motherless daughter, This was so helpful to me, Being early in my grief, Im looking for people who I can try to relate to, From what I read I abandoned it due to it not fitting my purpose right now, this book was not it.
The majority of the womens moms died of cancer and most all of them view their mom in a very loving, no baggage, way.
I can definitely see the benefit of this book, just not for me, .