19d • NSIF Daily Dose
Mothering in all it's forms
Happy weekend, Rooted community. 🌿
I’m a mother. A daughter. A daughter-in-law. And as Mother’s Day rolls around again, I’m keenly aware of how complex this day can be—for me, and for so many of us.
It can stir up grief. Longing. Regret. Discomfort. And there is space here for all of it.
I also want to offer something else: mothering is more than being a mother. We can mother our own inner child. We can lean on Mother Earth and the steady holding she offers. We can listen to what our body is asking for as we navigate whatever relationship we have—right now, in this season—with the powerful energy of mothering and being mothered.
Many of us are carrying losses, distances, or complications around mothering. And alongside that, we can still extend mothering—to ourselves, to each other, to the land beneath us. Both can be true at the same time.
This year, with Gus and Izzy moved out of the Bay, my mom across the country on the East Coast, and real complexity with my mother-in-law right now, I’m in a strange in-between feeling. Today I’m heading out with a friend who has her own complicated relationship with this weekend. We’ll mother each other a little. We’ll let the land hold us. That feels like enough.
Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, co-care doesn’t only flow downward from mother to child. It moves laterally—between friends, between strangers in shared moments, between us and the natural world. When the relationship we’re “supposed” to lean on is unavailable or complicated, regulation can still come from somewhere.
Wherever you are in this, I invite you to share what feels generative.
🌱 Weekend Micro-Practice
Take a few quiet minutes this weekend—ideally outside, with a hand on your heart or your feet on the ground—and let these questions land.
Where do I most need mothering right now—and what part of me is most able to offer it?
Is there a place on the land—a tree, a trail, a patch of sky—that feels like it holds me, even just a little?
What does my body need today that has nothing to do with productivity, performance, or anyone else’s expectations?
There’s no wrong way to be in this weekend. Tend what is yours to tend.
💬 Drop into the comments:
- If you’re a proud mama, share that pride here. We want to celebrate with you.
- If you’re grieving a mother-related loss—your own mother, a child, a relationship that didn’t become what you hoped—share that here too. We are here for all of it.
- What’s your way of mothering yourself, or being mothered by something other than a person—the land, a friend, a practice, a memory?
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