Managing Emotions If Your Mother's Day Is Spent In Mourning

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

May 3, 2021

The Mother’s Day advertising blitz has arrived right on cue — less than subtle reminders to buy that gift, order those flowers or perhaps make a reservation for brunch. But for many what’s needed is a plan — to manage the range of emotions if say, you’re struggling to become a mom, have lost a child, have a fractured relationship with your mother or when you’re left mourning the best one in the world: your own.

“Whether you are going through a holiday or not, your grief doesn’t take a holiday, your grief doesn’t ever take a vacation, it’s always there,” says Larry Barber, MA, LPC-S, and an associate at Taylor Counseling Group. Barber adds that an ad can be a trigger, a memory or just about anything at all — at any time. “That’s what I call ‘grief ambushes.’ They come out of nowhere, you’re suddenly overtaken with sadness — and you’re going: where did that come from?”

Even when you think that you’re doing okay.

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