You can love being a mom and still grieve the life you had before. You can experience profound loss and still find moments of joy. Both can be true.
Motherhood changes everything—including our identities, relationships, priorities, and sense of self. And while we talk endlessly about the joy of becoming a mother, we rarely make room for the grief, resentment, guilt, overwhelm, and complicated emotions that can come alongside it.
I'm Ilana Yahdav, MPA, founder of The Non-Linear Journey, a Grief Specialist and Certified Matrescence Coach. I support mothers navigating the emotional complexities of motherhood and grief—whether that's the invisible losses and identity shifts that come with becoming a mother, the death of someone they love, or the many other losses and life transitions that don't disappear simply because they're raising children.
My work lives at the intersection of grief and matrescence—the profound physical, emotional, psychological, and social...
