Sarah Sunshine Manning: Loving all of our mothers unconditionally

To love and honor our mothers without questioning whether or not they are worthy—this is the charge before us on this Mother’s Day.

All of our mothers, for roughly nine-and-a-half, life-changing, and arduous months, sacrificed bodily and emotional comforts to bring us into this world. If you are breathing, living, reading this right now, you have come through the womb of a mother who nurtured your fragile and developing body. For those nine months, alone, we owe our mothers deference, and without condition.

As our life giver, our mother is the ultimate source of our Earthly experience. We are of our mothers, and there is no changing this. We are her flesh, her blood, and her DNA.

And while some of us may have inherited her physical features or personality traits, for some, it may be that we have also inherited her trauma, her dysfunction, and her pain.