“As so many have said, it’s a club no one wants to belong to. But once you’re in it, my God, the women you will meet are extraordinary.” - Hope Edelman, Author of NY Time’s bestselling book Motherless Daughters.

 
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Motherless Daughters Club (also known as Dead Mommy’s Club) is an Instagram page that I’ve created for women across the globe to publicly remember their Mothers. People die, but memories do not - let’s keep them alive.

I lost my Mother a few weeks after the ball dropped in 2017 - I was twenty-one and barely finished with school, she was fifty-six and had so much planned for her future. Both of us were too young to have lost the other.

One thing losing my Mother has taught me is that having a community and keeping her memory alive are two incredibly important tools that I need to utilize during this long arch of grief.

Thank you for these posts. It’s been emotional but fulfilling to meet each of your Mother’s and provide you a space to share them with the world. Here is my post, for my Mother Elona on my personal Instagram page. ・・ “I was always s
“One of the only photographs I have of my mother. And one of my favorites. She is captured in a playful pose, a youthful, happy mother. She made us matching dresses. She wore her hair long and beautiful. This photo helps me remember her during
“Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, Arielle Hart. It makes me sad because when I sit down to write something like this it’s hard to call up any concrete memories or characteristics of my mom. She died when I was ten after an 18 month bat
“Oh how I miss you mom. Happy Mother’s Day. I so wish I could have known you as an adult woman. I wish you could have shared your fears and joys with me. It’s been 45 years since you died. I was 15 and you 49. My life was forever ch
“Every year feels different. My 36th year of being a motherless daughter on Mother’s Day. It’s not just this day that’s hard. It’s navigating the every day. Tomorrow would have been her first Mother’s Day as a gr
“My mom. Peggy DeBakker. Died at 39 of breast cancer. Lover of books, family vacations and diet cokes. Always the smartest and most beautiful woman in the room. Melter of hearts, tougher than nails and a nurse. She died when I was 11. It still
“This photo was taken the night before as a post to fly back to Hawaii to finish my second semester of freshman year. I have spent so much time distancing myself from my mom because things were so different from when I had left them the summer
Ah, the shittiest day of the year - if you are a Motherless Daughter, of course. - Emotions will surface today and naturally so. It is a day of grief, after all. Everyone is celebrating something that you have lost. - With that, understand that you
“May of 1997, my senior prom. 6 months later, she would be diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. 6 months after that, she would be gone. She was 49. I cannot begin to express how much I miss her. She has missed so many things- graduations, wedding
“This is one of my favorite photos ever taken of me and my mom. I must be about three years old. I don't know if she dressed us similarly on purpose, or if it was a happy accident that day. But from dressing two daughters of my own for many yea
“This is my mom. I lost her at 14 to stage 4 malignant melanoma. This year will be 9 years without her on the 27th of December. Losing her at an older age would have been a whole different ballgame. However, I lost her as a young teen, the youn
“Cynthia Doman. You held our family together through the ups and downs. You were also a nurse. You always did what was right. I hope I am making you proud. I love you. Happy Mother’s Day.” . . Motherless Daughter - @amiesmoove , @we
“Something I wrote about my mother, Ruth, years ago. She loved gaudy, red lipstick and called my makeup “warpaint.” She’s the reason I hardly ever wear any. She never ever stopped moving. She’s the reason I like to lou
“This photo could be titled “Past, Present and Future”. . . In the middle is the woman (me) who wrote a book 26 years ago that brought the three of us together for this lunch in LA . . . On the right is Jillian, from New York, who a
“This is Annie (or Miss Ann as her students call her). She’s an amazing teacher, but is also full of sarcasm, highly opinionated and has a smile that is infectious. She is a die hard Cleveland Browns fan. She loves country music and sing
“This is Margaret. She is outspoken, sarcastic, and a devoted mother and friend. She has a proclivity for cheap wine, preferably $12 Cabot Pinot Grigio, and she is well-known for her “Margaret pours” (i.e., filling wine glasses to t
This is Elona. She is spunky and outspoken. She can make a stranger feel at home and her presence is enough to put a smile on everyone around her. She is a beam of light. She dreams of having a family because she’s experienced more loss than so