Your grief process provides opportunities for both emotional and spiritual growth, and inside of your pain, you can also find insight. You may receive messages from your mother when you least expect them.
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out of the ordinary for me to see or hear them, and I wrestle with the fact that I have not“ seen” her.
However, I have dreamed about her, felt her energy, and received what psychotherapist Carl Jung would describe as big dreams— dreams that possess qualities of authenticity that transcend normal dreaming. The messages I have received telepathically I have written down in countless journals, and the drawings I have created from my light visions never cease to amaze. Maybe that is how my mother chooses to communicate with me.
You may have experienced metaphysical connections with your mother— an image out of the corner of your eye, a song that is suddenly on the radio, lights switching off and on, or the smell of her fragrance. I wish I knew the exact mechanism for why or how this takes place, but I do not.
However, these experiences validate that she is with you, and those magic moments are therapeutic. Although you may know people who dismiss supernatural phenomenon because they have never had those experiences themselves, their beliefs do not negate the power of those experiences.
Your grief process provides opportunities for both emotional and spiritual growth, and inside of your pain, you can also find insight. You may receive messages from your mother when you least expect them.
Trust that these communications are your grief wisdom. I am referring to the wisdom of telepathic impulses, inner promptings to go through a file of letters, drive to a memoryfilled landscape, turn on the radio, or other urges. Your mother is part of this magical process. Let her lead you to take initial steps.
You may sense that everything in your life is“ unright.” Everything in your life has changed after her departure and your belief that things are not as they should be is real. However, this truth is mutable.
The“ unright” feeling will fluctuate throughout your grief process and will ebb and flow, gaining momentum, receding, and then gaining momentum again.
Recognize that this is a process of commitment for you to honor those changes and feelings of uncertainty and certainty. It is part of the path of grief, and you will learn how to move through all of it.
DR. JANET ROSEMAN – Dr. Janet Roseman is an Associate Professor in integrative medicine at the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. She was a Fellow in Spirituality at the Library of Congress and received the President’ s Award from Lesley University. She specializes in Spirituality and Medicine, trains healthcare professionals and offers color and light therapy and energy healing. She is the author of The Eternal Bond: Daughters Honor their Mothers on the Other Side.( Llewellyn, October 2025).
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