I would have found it very hard to love myself in the following months, even years after my son died. If anything I hated myself. I was his mother and I SHOULD have known…..It took awhile to forgive myself and appreciate my own self worth.…We matter, you matter and are worth self love.

*On those days
when you miss someone the most

as though your memories
are sharp enough
to slice through skin and bone

remember how they loved you.

Remember how they loved you
and do that for yourself...*

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