Spirit of the Written Word Blog

Spirit of the Written Word is a weekly writing group for people impacted by cancer. By sharing our writing through this blog, we invite you into what for many of us is a healing process. Writing in a small group setting like this can be restorative—a way to release challenging emotions or experiences onto the page and transform them. We are new and longtime writers at various stages of the cancer journey: newly diagnosed, in treatment, longer term survivors, and caregivers.

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Holly Mott 10/1/26 Holly Mott 10/1/26

Mothering

by A Spirit of the Written Word Writer

Used to navigating the world on my own, one step at a time, a single parent with no one in the passenger seat to help read the map, I feel my aloneness even more since my son has moved out of our nest.