When Mother's Day Hurts: Tell Us Your Story:

While the holiday for moms is typically a joyous time of year, there are many for whom it conjures feelings of pain and loss for someone missing from their lives.

What Beliefnet is asking: Have you lost a child? Are you having difficulty conceiving one? Have you lost your own mother or been estranged from her over the years? Beliefnet is reaching out for advice on how to deal with such difficult circumstances in life during this season. What guidance can you offer others? Send us helpful hints and short stories of how you have coped with this pain and what others might do as well.  Beliefnet will feature some of your responses in an upcoming Mother's Day story.

Email short descriptions (100-150 words) about what you’ve done individually, with your family, or with a group to help you overcome, or deal with, your situation and how it has helped.

Where possible, send photos of the person you are writing about, preferably with you, along with a description. Send by email to

. Subject line should say: Mother's Day.

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