Help! Love, MOM

Hello there! My name is Kimberly and welcome to my blog.

Help! Love, MOM offers a compassionate community, information, affirmation and insight especially for “unseen” moms: anxious moms, teen moms, depressed moms, moms of deceased children, moms of acutely, chronically or mentally ill children, moms of incarcerated kids, incarcerated moms, moms of non-custodial kids and foster moms.

We are a no shade, no shame zone! We’re a safe forum for the Mom who feels unseen in some area of her life. We affirm you. We validate you. We are thankful for you. Thanks for connecting.

In other words, if you’re mom in a “struggle” season right now, HELP! Love, MOM is here to offer double shots — yum! — of hope and encouragement.

At 18 I became a mom and I lived a struggle life, not a bootylicious life. In fact, I had a strugglicious life for a LOOONG TIIIIIIIME! I felt unseen and unloved by everyone EXCEPT my daughter.

I have learned that struggling seasons can happen at any stage or on any social media page of parenting. If you’re raising terrible 2s, tweens or teens; or, if twenty something year olds are still at home and deeply in your pockets, HELP! Love, MOM is for you. 

What if you’re super worried about your college kids’ safety or you’re disappointed by the canceled graduations during the widespread protests over the Israel/HAMAS war?  HELP! Love, MOM is for you.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day used to be my most difficult struggle day of the year. I thought this was because I didn’t fit the ideal mom model.

Family didn’t seem to care and close friends didn’t seem to notice my agony. Meanwhile I didn’t reach out – my pain remained unexpressed. I lived with anger and depression.

If you feel unseen and unvalued, I see you Mom! I value you!  I also plan to provide resources for the concern highlighted in that week’s blog as well as a safe space for moms to encourage one another as the Help! Love, MOM community takes root and grows. I plan to post on weekends.

HELP! Love, MOM is building a community of parents offering wisdom as we talk together on our Mom journeys as allies, as encouragers, as supporters who will not judge where you are, but who believe WITH you that tomorrow can be different.  

As I write this afternoon, a friend is texting asking a group of us to pray for the 7 year old child of a friend of theirs. That first grader is hospitalized with a life threatening medical emergency: the child has several severe pulmonary issues and has been intubated. 

Can you imagine the emotional state of those parents at this moment? Some of you don’t have to imagine. You’ve been there. Feeling alone even while, perhaps, surrounded by many.  HELP! Love, MOM is for you.

Now I don’t believe nor am I saying that this family of the 7 year old (or you) need a blog. I am saying that if life is leading you through the valley of the shadow of death (or the E-valley of the shadow of death; crappy, crazy stuff happens online, yes?), the HELP! Love, MOM blog community is walking with you.

Listen, we’re here for fun, sassy celebrations too. But in hard places HELP! Love, MOM offers a compassionate voice in what is, sometimes, a fight to be who you already are, a good mom, again, today.

With Affection and Admiration,

xoxo Kimberly